Some Parents are saying Mattel’s new “So in Style” Black dolls made with wider noses and fuller lips in an array of skin tones are not Black enough, according to “Wall Street Journal”.

She did her research and came across a reborn doll shop in the UK. While it’s helped to satisfy her maternal needs, it’s left her husband, Steve, 57, feeling “confused” and quite ...

The first Barbie, wearing a white-and-black striped swimsuit ... realistic-looking Pickle Kit Reborn baby dolls. On her days off, she takes her doll, named Harper Olivia, out.

The National Black Doll Museum and Norton Public Library will be among participants across the state hosting a community reading and discussion of Frederick Douglass’s 1852 speech “What to the ...

The doll's anniversary look pays tribute to its original design created by Kitty Black Perkins. To celebrate the 45th anniversary of the first Black Barbie, Mattel has released a special edition ...

Here, Iman Leila finds out how the wigmaker has become synonymous with Black girl luxury I’ll never forget the thrill of buying my first wig back in 2012. Fresh from receiving my first-ever ...

AS OUR ERIN BURNETT SHOWS US, IT IS A UNIQUE COLLECTION TELLING STORIES THROUGH DOLLS, FROM BARBIES TO ACTION FIGURES AND PUPPETS. THIS EXHIBIT AIMS TO TRANSPORT YOU THROUGH DECADES OF BLACK ...

But it wasn’t until 1976, when Kitty Black Perkins joined the brand as Chief Designer of Fashion Doll concepts, that Barbie was Black. Now, Barbie is celebrating the 45th anniversary of their ...

In hindsight, I realize that the majority of the dolls I owned and saw in stores did not look like me — an experience many Black girls can relate to. When I was younger, many of Barbie's ...

But she wasn’t a real baby. She was a reborn doll made of vinyl. “I’d heard about reborns before and seen them in magazines. I’d never seen one in real life. Yet now I had my very own!

However, I had the magic of the internet, where I could covertly maintain my interest in dolls through the discovery of the Reborn doll community on YouTube. A more insidious genre of criticism for ...