Ruth Handler, who co-founded Mattel with her husband, Elliot Handler, and Harold Matson in 1945, noticed her daughter, Barbara, playing with paper dolls and dreaming about what kind of woman she would ...
The Barbie x Krispy Kreme Collection is available starting Tuesday, Sept. 3 Bailey Richards is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2023 and interned with the brand in ...
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The inclusive world of Barbie is expanding yet again — this time, with the first-ever blind Barbie doll and a Black Barbie with Down syndrome. Toy manufacturer Mattel announced the two new additions ...
Eric Bridges, CEO of American Foundation for the Blind, tells PEOPLE that the new Barbie "can help get blindness out into society in a way that is accurate and attention-getting" Mattel Barbie is ...
Barbie has announced two new additions to its growing line of diverse and inclusive dolls: a blind Barbie and the first Black Barbie with Down syndrome. Mattel announced the two new dolls on Tuesday ...
A new documentary tells the story of Black Barbie, and why she has meant so much to so many Gregory Wakeman - Freelance Writer Lagueria Davis has been working on her documentary, Black Barbie, since ...
Deadline’s Most Valuable Blockbuster tournament is back. While studios during Covid wildly embraced the theatrical day-and-date model when cinemas were closed, they soon realized there’s nothing more ...
It’s National Barbie Day. Used to celebrate the iconic doll created by Mattel, the yearly occurrence brings back a feeling of childhood nostalgia. After all, most middle-class American women have had ...
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 ...
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The Barbie movie begins with a parodic nod to Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, where in the opening scene, the appearance of a black obelisk signals a milestone in the evolution of ...