In 1968, Mattel expanded the catalog to feature dolls representing women of color, such as one named Christie, the first black Barbie doll ... brand represents “35 skin tones, 97 hairstyles ...

After Mattel‘s culture sweeping debut of Barbie ... of skin color. Barbie was a a firefighter, a teacher, an actor, a lifeguard, a doctor. But it wasn’t until 1976, when Kitty Black Perkins ...

When her husband Marcus learned of his wife’s dilemma, he said he knew exactly what to to do for her upcoming birthday: purchase a different type of Barbie Doll in a darker skin tone and dress ...

Angela Williams, a Black writer in her 40s, remembers getting her first Black Barbie doll like it was yesterday ... a “simple” blue dress and dark skin. But, the best part about the ...

In a new video posted to the Barbie YouTube page, where an animated Barbie and her friends regularly appear in vlog-style clips, she has a discussion with Nikki, a Black doll. Their talk has gone ...

dark Nubian skin, and she is stunning to me,” Isis Mckenzie-Johnson, former Miss Black California, said, describing one of her black Barbie dolls. To her, it means so much more than that.

So does this Barbie reflect a different view of beauty — an Indian view? For starters, the doll’s skin is darker than earlier India Barbies — although not as dark as the skin tones of many ...