Mattel just introduced the first Black Barbie with Down syndrome ... When Taylor saw the finished doll she was overjoyed, excitedly saying “Her braids look like me, her glasses are like me.” ...

Evana, 42, bought Zoe a Black doll to play with, but the doll too had straight hair — so Zoe suggested creating dolls with curls, coils and braids. "At first, my mom did not take me seriously.

In the 1940s, researchers Dr. Kenneth and Mamie Clark explored the effects of “prejudice, discrimination, and segregation” on Black children through a series of doll studies. The researchers ...