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Black Barbie stormed onto the toy scene as the “dynamite” antithesis to her Malibu sun-kissed, pink-obsessed predecessor, Barbie, in 1980. ... Getty Images. With micro-braids cascading down ...
Mattel has modeled Barbie dolls after trailblazing activists, athletes, and celebrities. Barbie's Inspiring Women series includes Ida B. Wells, Rosa Parks, and Frida Kahlo.
Long before the Shani line debuted in stores, Mattel had already been making African American fashion dolls for 24 years, with their first black doll being the Colored Francie doll from 1967, and then Barbie's friends Christie and Julia (the latter being based on the hit TV series of the same name), released in 1968 and 1969 respectively.
Stunned by her aunt’s revelation, Davis listened as Mitchell explained how Kitty Black Perkins, the designer of the first Black Barbie, hired in 1976, and Stacey McBride-Irby, a Black Barbie ...
Louvenia "Kitty" Black Perkins is an African American fashion designer. The majority of her career was spent designing clothing for Barbie dolls . She designed the first Black Barbie in the late 1970s; previous Black dolls in the line were marketed as Barbie's friends.
Black Barbie: A Documentary is a 2023 American documentary film about the creation of the first black Barbie doll in 1980. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The film is directed, written, and produced by Lagueria Davis . The film premiered at the 2023 South by Southwest film festival [ 4 ] and was released on Netflix on June 19, 2024.
In 1989, the company made a Black Barbie who was a pilot, and in 1993, there was another Black Barbie, who served as a medical sergeant. In the years following, Mattel released other Black Barbies ...
Barbara "Brooklyn Barbie" Millicent Roberts (2021–present): A black eponymously-named friend of Barbie, first introduced in the 2021 film Barbie: Big City, Big Dreams. In the film, Barbie crosses paths with her over a locker engraved in their name in a performing arts school in Brooklyn, New York City. They become fast friends and have been ...