Mattel's latest Barbieland Fashionistas are the stylish likenesses of a blind Barbie and her a mobility aid, and the line's first Black Barbie with Down syndrome, adding even more representative ...

It took Mattel until 1980 to debut its first Black Barbie doll, which was designed by ... a historian and scholar of 20th-century African American women’s history, and a former curator at ...

After launching the Boho Barbie with Mattel in 2006, the Chinese-American fashion icon has designed her own figurine, which ...

Mattel will sell the dolls exclusively on Barbie.com at first while it negotiates ... the focus groups I watched were middle class and African American or Hispanic.) “She’s cute thick ...

Toy company Mattel revealed its first Barbie doll representing a person with Down’s syndrome on Tuesday. Mattel collaborated with the US-based National Down Syndrome Society (NDSS) to create the ...

In 1967, Mattel introduced the first African American Barbie, but the moulds were the same as the original white dolls. In 1997, Mattel released a black Barbie in partnership with Oreo (she held ...