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"Black Barbie was different": Six fascinating details from Shonda Rhimes' Netflix documentary
Salon via Yahoo News· 1 day ago"When I designed this doll there was a need for the little Black girl to really have something she...
Netflix’s ‘Black Barbie’ documentary shows how far the doll has come and still has to go
TheGrio via Yahoo News· 21 hours agoThe doll wasn’t greenlit until Perkins was hired as a Barbie designer in 1976. Black Barbie hit the...
Gateway - The Root
The Root· 5 days agoThe success of “Bob Marley: One Love” and the anticipation for “Michael” has fans discussing some other big names they want to see music biopics of. Films about Tina Turner, Ray Charles and ...
Doll Designers Say First Black Barbie ‘Opened a Lot of Doors’ for Inclusivity in Toys: Mattel...
People Magazine· 4 days agoWhen the very first Black Barbie landed on store shelves in 1980, she was revolutionary. Up until...
Shonda Rhimes on first Black Barbie, star of Netflix documentary: 'She was amazing'
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 4 days agoShania Twain: Her iconic 'Man, I Feel Like a Woman' look becomes a Barbie Black Perkins took...
RuPaul's Reality Show 'Drag Race' Wins Emmy for Outstanding Reality Competition Program
Biography via Yahoo News· 2 days agoRuPaul was the only boy of his parents’ four children and eventually began wearing his sisters’...
Your Essential Guide to Buying Broadway Tickets Online
Rolling Stone via Yahoo News· 5 days agoGet tickets for the next showing here. If you’re interested in catching a preview before heading to...
Perspective | We’re living in Barbie’s world. So what does Black Barbie mean?
Washington Post· 2 days agoIf these were different children and I a different mom, the scene would have been sweet. Imbuing...
Revisiting the 1994 FIFA World Cup: How USA's soccer popularity explosion traces back to a single...
Sporting News· 3 days agoU.S. midfielder Aidan Morris could accurately be labeled a child of 1994, although his birth did not...
The First Black Barbie: Netflix Documentary
Time via Yahoo News· 6 days agoPerkins explains that she recruited Mellie Phillips, a Mattel doll hair designer who was also Black, to design an afro for the Black Barbie. Another...
