Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Screenshot via YouTube/Netflix) As illustrated by a new Netflix documentary, the history of Black Barbie paved the way for a more ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As a young girl in segregated Spartanburg, South Carolina, Kitty Black Perkins took a brown crayon to white paper dolls so their ...

In Greta Gerwig’s much-anticipated “Barbie” movie, which opens in theaters Friday, “Insecure” actress Issa Rae brings some black power to the iconic doll’s pink world as President Barbie. But it was ...

Netflix uber-producer Shonda Rhimes has snapped up the rights for “Black Barbie: A Documentary,” which chronicles Mattel’s 1980 introduction of the first Black doll, bringing some much-needed ...

Andrew McGowan studied at Bowdoin College and the UCLA School of Theater, Film, and Television. Hs has served on programming and judicial teams for several film festivals, and has written about cinema ...

A “Black Barbie” documentary is on the way now that Shondaland and Netflix have acquired worldwide rights to the Lagueria Davis-directed film. Unveiled at SXSW earlier this year, Davis’ “Black Barbie” ...

Angela Williams, a Black writer in her 40s, remembers getting her first Black Barbie doll like it was yesterday. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and ...

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Variety may receive an affiliate commission. After Mattel‘s culture sweeping debut of Barbie in 1959, it ...

Barbie is everything. She's everywhere. She's in a box-office billion-dollar smash hit directed by Greta Gerwig. However, despite all her success — especially in recent years — the one question always ...

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It’s been 44 years since toy maker Mattel introduced the first official Black Barbie to the market. As filmmaker Lagueria Davis illustrates in Netflix’s “Black Barbie: A Documentary,” the doll has had ...