"Little girls, they don't care ... innovations were happening at Mattel with these three Black women." After Black Barbie's 2023 premiere at South by Southwest premiere, Shonda Rhimes snatched ...

Follow the San Francisco native, Black Barbie collector and proud mom of two on Instagram and Twitter @janinerube Margot Robbie hasn't always been a Barbie Girl, in a Barbie World. Just ahead of ...

And like me, girls will strip curvy Barbie and try to put original Barbie ... day,” says a mom in one of the focus groups. “If a black woman or a redheaded woman or a heavyset woman had ...

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Black Sunsational Ken in particular remains a sought-after rarity among Barbie collectors. Mattel based Ken’s new look on a survey of young girls, who said they wanted Ken to be cooler.

Another said, “the Black Barbie hairstyle is horrid ... Kids loved Mattel’s 2010 “Video Girl Barbie”—a doll with a camera ...

When the Mattel company introduced Barbie to the world, in 1959, she wore a black-and-white striped one ... and impressionable preteen girls already dying to look like the models they see in ...

Market Street in Akron. The Hot 107.9 radio station posted on Instagram that "this release coincides with the 45th anniversary of the Black Barbie, a milestone in representation in the toy industry." ...