Before Black Barbie, the original blonde and blue-eyed doll had Black friends. One of them, Christie, was dubbed Barbie’s pal and babysitter.

Mattel did introduce Black fashion dolls in the late 1960s, but they were not named Barbie, and they were marketed as Barbie's friends. So the arrival of a true Black Barbie was an important moment.

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 ...

The dolls say they're meant to help you chill out. Instead, the black rag doll that implores people to grab it firmly by the legs and "find a wall to slam" it against has enraged customers who ...

Creator of First Black 18-Inch Superhero Doll Celebrates Selling Thousands of Units. Shaneisha Dodson, a proud HBCU graduate of Grambling State University and the founder and CEO of the Brilliant ...

The doll has a soft, brown cloth head and body with rounded cloth hands and feet. The doll's facial features are embroidered. She has round, side glancing, black eyes, thick bottom eyelashes, and ...

Artist known as 'Mr. Doodle' squiggles black-and-white doodles over entire mansion “My dream was to have a doodle house and doodle over everything within that house,” artist Sam Cox told NBC News.

The doll drive, and the hundreds of dolls that will soon make their way to children in foster care, carries another sobering message: Black children make up about 20% of California’s youth in ...