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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.
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 ...
“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 ...
Black Barbie is a celebration of Black culture over the past 70 years, and is written and directed by Lagueria Davis, who is also producing with Aaliyah Williams. Camilla Hall, Jyoti Sarda, Milan ...
Black Barbie stormed onto the toy scene as the “dynamite” antithesis to her Malibu sun-kissed, pink-obsessed predecessor, Barbie, in 1980.
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.
JoIssa Rae Diop [1] (born January 12, 1985), [2] known professionally as Issa Rae, is an American actress, writer, and producer. [3] [4] Founder of Hoorae Media, she achieved wider recognition as the co-creator, co-writer, and star of the HBO television series Insecure (2016–2021), for which she was nominated for multiple Golden Globes Awards and Primetime Emmy Awards.
Getting the Black Barbie team back together. That initial conversation led Davis to start making her film in 2011, one that puts Black Barbie in the spotlight and examines how her introduction ...