Mattel, Inc. (NASDAQ: MAT) announced today that Barbie is celebrating Black History Month and multiple generations of Black ...

The new Netflix documentary “Black Barbie”, tracks the powerful story ... the late 1960s when Diahann Carroll became the first African American woman to lead a television show in the hit ...

Barbie is more than just a doll. The brand does $1 billion in ... women in the focus groups I watched were middle class and African American or Hispanic.) “She’s cute thick,” offers one ...

“Black Butterfly: Proud and Beautiful African American Doll Collection ... which features more than two dozen Black Barbie and Ken dolls, and many of their accessories. Howell, of Kernersville ...

In 1967, Mattel introduced the first African American Barbie, but the moulds were the same as the original white dolls. In 1997, Mattel released a black Barbie in partnership with Oreo (she held ...