OBSERVER Senior Staff Writer - How family and community play a vital role in healing Black youth foster care trauma. Experts ...

Season 3 of HBO’s “The Gilded Age” will explore the history of the Black elite, starring Phylicia Rashad, Audra McDonald, and ...

A mother with terminal cancer designed a Barbie-themed funeral, featuring her in a glass coffin and guests in hot pink. It ...

Before there was Oprah Winfrey, there was Madam C.J. Walker. The daughter of former slaves, Walker grew up an orphan toiling ...

Dressed in Karl’s signature look (tailored black blazer, high-starched collar ... and she’s basically the original pop princess. Ah yes, Happy Family Midge—aka the 2002 Barbie that low-key caused a ...

A study conducted by toy manufacturer Mattel revealed that 95% of American girls ages 3 to 11 owned multiple Barbie dolls. Amirah Kambe was one of them. A 2025 Cal State Fullerton graduate with a ...

Barbie will also donate one copy of James’ I Am More Than children’s book to Save The Children for every LeBron Doll sold at Target from April 14 to 19.

The first Black Barbie was designed by a Black woman, Kitty Black Perkins, a South Carolina native. She was also the first Black designer for Barbie when she was hired by Mattel in 1976 at age 28.

The original muscle-less Ken (1961), and a handful of other versions, is here, along with other non-Barbie members of the family. But with the launch of the first Black and Hispanic Barbie dolls ...

Lagueria Davis, left, with her aunt, Beulah Mae Mitchell, right, on the Netflix documentary “Black Barbie.” Mitchell played a role in the creation of the first Black Barbie doll. Taylor newby ...

Lagueria Davis, writer and director of the documentary "Black Barbie," talks about her film prior to a screening as a part of the Cayuga Film Festival at Auburn Public Theater on Friday.

Ms. Raimo is the author, most recently, of “Lost on Me,” a novel. She wrote from Rome. Last summer the hot-pink feminism of “Barbie” took more than $1 billion at box offices worldwide. In ...