At its best, writer-director Lagueria Davis' film aims to challenge the level of responsibility placed onto Black Barbie and Mattel. Courtesy of Netflix In many ways, the release of “Black Barbie: A ...

Netflix’s 'Black Barbie' tells the story of how the first Black Barbie came to be — and the lasting impact she left behind Courtesy of Netflix Barbie dolls first hit the shelves in 1959 — but it would ...

The Barbie you grew up with was nothing like the one sold today.

Barbieland meets Shondaland in the upcoming Netflix documentary Black Barbie. Shonda Rhimes, the executive producer of television sensations like Bridgerton and Grey's Anatomy, is discovering the ...

A new documentary tells the story of Black Barbie, and why she has meant so much to so many Gregory Wakeman | Correspondent Lagueria Davis has been working on her documentary, Black Barbie, since 2011 ...

Lagueria Davis hates dolls. At least that’s what the director of Netflix’s Black Barbie documentary (streaming now) says in the first few minutes of the film. As a kid, she preferred powering ...

As a young girl in segregated Spartanburg, South Carolina, Kitty Black Perkins took a brown crayon to white paper dolls so their skin would match hers. “I seldom saw white people, and so it was all I ...

(CNN) — In the first few minutes of her new documentary film, the writer and director Lagueria Davis pays a visit to her aunt, Beulah Mitchell. At Mitchell’s house, they look through a room filled ...