Mitchell, 86, joined Mattel in 1955 assembling jack-in-the-boxes, four years before ... change public opinion about Black dolls. Davis places a critical eye on Barbie, analyzing other media ...

Some have cheered the new dolls. Others jeered them, saying they're not black enough. "I love the black Barbie. It's about time," Jua Simpson said on CNN's iReport, a user-generated news community.

“I hate dolls,” writer-director Lagueria Davis states early in her debut documentary “Black Barbie ... who tested the crank on a Jack in the Box — is just one of the documentary ...

In 'Black Barbie,' designers Kitty Black Perkins and Stacey McBride-Irby talk the evolution of the dolls and further tell PEOPLE about the differences they've made Hedy Phillips is the Senior ...

Black Barbie is the untold story of the first Barbie doll created as a Black woman and the pivotal role that three trailblazing women had in working with the Mattel Company in 1980 to produce a ...

She added, “We have made significant strides since the first Black Barbie doll in 1980, and I’m proud to say Barbie continues to represent the broadest range of stories, careers, and ...