Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Screenshot via YouTube/Netflix) As illustrated by a new Netflix documentary, the history of Black Barbie paved the way for a more ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. At its best, writer-director Lagueria Davis' film aims to challenge the level of responsibility placed onto Black Barbie and ...

Margot Robbie’s Barbie made film history last year. But in the Eighties, three Black women revolutionized the doll brand when they helped push for a Black Barbie. On Tuesday, Netflix released the ...

It was only a year ago that Greta Gerwig and Margot Robbie’s live action adaptation of Barbie was the talk of the town, but the worldwide phenomenon didn’t spend much time showing the inner workings ...

On the way home from the splash pad recently, my daughters — 4 and 7 — ran damp and carefree down the sidewalk, beach towels draped over their heads and dripping down their backs. “How do you like my ...

A new documentary tells the story of Black Barbie, and why she has meant so much to so many Gregory Wakeman | Correspondent Lagueria Davis has been working on her documentary, Black Barbie, since 2011 ...

Netflix’s 'Black Barbie' tells the story of how the first Black Barbie came to be — and the lasting impact she left behind Courtesy of Netflix Barbie dolls first hit the shelves in 1959 — but it would ...

More than a decade ago, filmmaker Lagueria Davis decided to spend the day visiting her aunt, Beulah Mae Mitchell. As her aunt poured her a drink, she began telling Davis the story of how she started ...

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 ...