A new documentary on Netflix tells the story of the first Black Barbie doll. The doll arrived in 1980 — more than two decades after the 1959 launch of the first Barbie. If last year was the summer of ...

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 on ...

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 ...

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Netflix has released a trailer and release date for Black Barbie, a new documentary from The documentary, which debuts June 19th on the streaming platform, is set to tell the untold story of the first ...

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 has had ...

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 first ...