Black Barbie dolls

Mattel created a Barbie doll for gold medal-winning Olympic gymnast Gabby Douglas, 21, ahead of the Olympics in Rio last year.

Ava DuVernay, director of the seminal film, “Selma” (which will be distributed to every single high school in the country) and the first African American woman at the helm of a Best Picture nomination at the  2014 Academy Awards, has yet another accolade deservedly laid at her feet. The director was recently selected as one […]

Last January, Taofick Okoya told Reuters that while looking to buy a Black doll for his niece, he was dismayed that he could not find any — even in Nigeria, which boasts more Black children than anywhere else in the world, he said. SEE ALSO: Study: 6 Million White Americans Have Some African Ancestry More Sponsors […]