Produced by Shonda Rhimes, the documentary focuses on how Mattel received criticism for making dolls with fair skin tones, leading Perkins to launch the first Black Barbie doll in 1980.

Leading the throwback charge, in her curvy convertible, is Barbie, the plastic-fantastic doll that has been delighting young ...

The memories of poring over catalogs from Sears-Roebuck, J.C. Penney or Montgomery Ward are priceless. Some of us circled the ...

Barbie wore a black-and-white zebra-striped bathing suit and mimicked the glamour of Elizabeth Taylor and Marilyn Monroe. Back then, Barbie dolls retailed for $3 a pop. Mattel introduced ...

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the little girl could be anything she wanted to be,” Handler wrote in Dream Doll: The Ruth Handler Story. “Barbie always represented the fact that a woman has choices.” By the 1970s, Barbie had ...

Black Friday has ushered in some of the very best prices of the season this weekend on some of the year's most giftable items. But where to start with so many deals going on right now? Fortunately ...