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 ...

The trailer highlights the importance of the Black Barbie creation. The story of the world's first Black Barbie is coming to streaming. Netflix released the trailer for "Black Barbie" on Tuesday, ...

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 ...

As Greta Gerwig’s Barbie film has caused a worldwide buzz, a new docu-film based on the untold story of the first Black Barbie doll is coming to Netflix via Shondaland. The synopsis reads, “Through ...

At its best, writer-director Lagueria Davis' film aims to challenge the level of responsibility placed onto Black Barbie and Mattel. Courtesy of Netflix In many ways, the release of “Black Barbie: A ...

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 Style ...

Netflix uber-producer Shonda Rhimes has snapped up the rights for “Black Barbie: A Documentary,” which chronicles Mattel’s 1980 introduction of the first Black doll, bringing some much-needed ...

Barbieland meets Shondaland in the upcoming Netflix documentary Black Barbie. Shonda Rhimes, the executive producer of television sensations like Bridgerton and Grey's Anatomy, is discovering the ...

The documentary will be released on Netflix on Juneteenth. By Christy Piña Associate Editor “If you go through life, and you’ve never seen anything made in your own image, there is damage done,” ...

Angela Williams, a Black writer in her 40s, remembers getting her first Black Barbie doll like it was yesterday. “My first Black Barbie came as a hand me down from one of my sisters. I have three ...

A “Black Barbie” documentary is on the way now that Shondaland and Netflix have acquired worldwide rights to the Lagueria Davis-directed film. Unveiled at SXSW earlier this year, Davis’ “Black Barbie” ...