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 ...

Mattel, the toymaker behind the “Most Diverse Doll Line” and a blockbuster Barbie movie trumpeting diversity, is talking less ...

Not even Barbara is without her controversies; in fact, the iconic doll ... one at Mattel was familiar with the racial slur ...

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 ...

Following the overwhelming success of the Barbie movie, toy brand Mattel has begun work on an American Girl Doll Movie which aims to recapture a bit of that cinematic magic. Originally debuting in ...

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 ...