Netflix’s 'Black Barbie' tells the story of how the first Black Barbie came to be — and the lasting impact she left behind Courtesy of Netflix Barbie dolls first hit the shelves in 1959 ...

A new documentary tells the story of Black Barbie, and why she has meant so much to so many Gregory Wakeman - Freelance Writer Lagueria Davis has been working on her documentary, Black Barbie ...

These A-listers and more are all dolled up, thanks to this pretty, plastic plaything. Black Barbie stormed onto the toy scene as the “dynamite” antithesis to her Malibu sun-kissed, pink ...

Lagueria Davis hates dolls. At least that’s what the director of Netflix’s Black Barbie documentary (streaming now) says in the first few minutes of the film. As a kid, she preferred powering ...

And so she did: “Black Barbie: A Documentary,” her newly-released project, takes a deeper look at the story behind Black Barbie and its impact on representation in the toy business ...

"The dolls could do anything, and that was exciting,” Shonda Rhimes says of the Mattel toy at the center of Netflix's "Black Barbie" documentary.

As her aunt poured her a drink, she began telling Davis the story of how she started working for Mattel in 1959 and later played an influential role in the toy maker’s launch of Black Barbie in ...

A new documentary on Netflix tells the story of the first Black Barbie doll. The doll arrived in 1980 — more than two decades after the 1959 launch of the first Barbie. If last year was the ...

Margot Robbie’s Barbie made film history last year. But in the Eighties, three Black women revolutionized the doll brand when they helped push for a Black Barbie. On Tuesday, Netflix released ...

a blind Barbie and the first Black Barbie with Down syndrome. Mattel announced the two new dolls on Tuesday as part of Barbie's 2024 Fashionistas Line, an inclusive range of dolls with over 175 ...

Lagueria Davis hates dolls. At least that's what the director of Netflix's Black Barbie documentary (streaming now) says in the first few minutes of the film. As a kid, she preferred powering ...