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Netflix’s ‘Black Barbie’ explores the creation of a doll that impacted generations

If last year was the summer of "Barbie," a new Netflix documentary hopes this will be the summer of "Black Barbie." That's the title of a new documentary on Netflix that tells the story of the ...
The Grio

Netflix’s ‘Black Barbie’ documentary shows how far the doll has come and still has to go

It’s been 44 years since toy maker Mattel introduced the first official Black Barbie to the market. As filmmaker Lagueria Davis illustrates in Netflix’s “Black Barbie: A Documentary,” the doll ...
Los Angeles Times

New documentaries on Black Barbie, the WNBA and other female trailblazers to stream this weekend

Welcome to Screen Gab, the newsletter for everyone who loves Barbie in all her forms and colors. After debuting at last year’s SXSW festival, the new documentary “Black Barbie” is now streaming ...
USA Today

Shonda Rhimes on first Black Barbie, star of Netflix documentary: 'She was amazing'

As a young girl in segregated Spartanburg, South Carolina, Kitty Black Perkins took a brown crayon to white paper dolls so their skin would match hers. “I seldom saw white people, and so it was all I ...