Angela Williams, a Black writer in her 40s, remembers getting her first Black Barbie doll like it was yesterday. “My first Black Barbie came as a hand me down from one of my sisters. I have three ...
Once upon a time, when Black girls played with fashionable Barbie dolls, the Barbies were little versions of white women — and Barbie stayed fashionable and white throughout the Civil Rights Movement ...
“Did you have a Black doll growing up?” asked host Kristen L. Pope at the start of this week’s episode of Basic Black about the history of Black dolls. As a child in Haiti, Widline Pyrame’s only ...
In the first few minutes of her new documentary film, the writer and director Lagueria Davis pays a visit to her aunt, Beulah Mitchell. At Mitchell’s house, they look through a room filled with boxes ...
Angela Williams, a Black writer in her 40s, remembers getting her first Black Barbie doll like it was yesterday. “My first Black Barbie came as a hand me down from one of my sisters. I have three ...
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