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2. Barbie - Wikipedia

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   While the 1997 release of the doll was only released in a white version, for the 2001 release Mattel manufactured both a white and a black version. The 2001 release Barbie Oreo School Time Fun was marketed as someone with whom young girls could play after class and share "America's favorite cookie". Critics argued that in the African American ...

3. Black Barbie: A Documentary - Wikipedia

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   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.

4. Black Barbie paved the way for Hollywood’s hottest celebrity ...

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   In Netflix documentary "Black Barbie," out Wednesday, June 19, executive producer Shonda Rhimes, 54, alongside ballerina Misty Copeland, 41, and Olympic fencer Ibtihaj Muhammad, 38, detail the ...

5. A new documentary explores why the first ‘Black Barbie’ was ...

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   The actual Black Barbie doll didn’t become a reality until decades later, after the company hired Kitty Black Perkins in 1976 as its first Black designer. Upon Black Barbie’s eventual release ...

6. ‘Black Barbie’ Review: Witty and Weighty Doc Dives Into the ...

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   “I hate dolls,” writer-director Lagueria Davis states early in her debut documentary “Black Barbie.” By turns a celebration and an interrogation (sometime both simultaneously), the film ...

7. The Marvelous World of Shani - Wikipedia

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   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.

8. 'Black Barbie' Documentary Is Coming to Netflix Thanks to ...

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   As "Barbie Girl" plays, the trailer begins by prompting the audience to imagine a world without representation — a world Black girls experienced when faced with all-white dolls — and the ...

9. In ‘Black Barbie,’ the 44-year-old doll reclaims her spotlight

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   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 ...