Produced by Shonda Rhimes, the documentary focuses on how Mattel received criticism for making dolls with fair skin tones, leading Perkins to launch the first Black Barbie doll in 1980.

unlike the other Black dolls from the company that either had a different name or the same design as Barbie just with a darker skin tone. Perkins, who arrived at Mattel in 1976 and then became ...

After the Barbie Instagram account posted a photo of a black Barbie doll with hair ... and have tried to make up for it by bringing out dolls in an array of skin colours, hair and body types ...

The company hopes that the new dolls, with their diverse body types, along with the new skin ... Santa and Barbie the other day,” says a mom in one of the focus groups. “If a black woman ...