Since the ’80s and early-’90s days of Christie, Barbie’s black friend, Mattel has tried to repair the damage done to young African-American girls’ self-image with 2009’s So In Style line of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Want to go? “Black Butterfly: Proud and Beautiful African American Doll Collection” opens Feb. 1 at the High Point Museum, 1859 E.

The Strong National Museum of Play in Rochester, New York has opened a Black Dolls exhibit that provides children with the history of the Black community in the 1800s and 1900s using dolls as the ...

Makayla Harrison has African American dolls, but the one she received Saturday is by far her favorite princess. “It looks like me,’’ the 10-year-old girl from Newark said. The reviews were the same ...

ATLANTA — An Atlanta recreation center has transformed into a dollhouse. To celebrate the history and innovation behind action figures, dolls and other beloved toys, a collector is showcasing her ...

One mother found out that there can be truth in old sayings like, “One man’s trash is another man’s treasure.” The purchase of a home in Texas came with more than just a change of scenery. Fox26 in ...

ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Frustrated by seeing store shelves in Ivory Coast lined with almost exclusively light-skinned dolls, Sara Coulibaly decided to create alternatives in which local children could see ...

HIGH POINT, N.C. — This Black History Month a unique pop-up exhibit by Thankful Heritage Museum highlights the evolution of black dolls throughout history. Founder Effley Howell Sr. said the exhibit ...

For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. Olivia Mengich, 31, is a cultural ambassador, a marketer and the maker of Swahili Princess ...

Taking a walk down memory lane, I can remember walking around a store and not being able to find a Black doll that looked like me. A fact which many can attest to, “[a]s many Black kids growing up in ...

Frustrated by seeing store shelves in Ivory Coast lined with almost exclusively light-skinned dolls, Sara Coulibaly decided to create alternatives in which local children could see themselves. By ...