A special edition Barbie in the form of LeBron James is sure to become a collectors' item when it hits the market. Here's how ...

Some have cheered the new dolls. Others jeered them, saying they're not black enough. "I love the black Barbie. It's about time," Jua Simpson said on CNN's iReport, a user-generated news community.

She’s dynamite,” the box read for the doll ... Perkins developed the first exclusive line of Black dolls for Barbie in 1991. Called Shani and Friends, the doll line featured three characters ...

As a result, Mattel hired her, and she became the first Black designer for Barbie in 1976. Before Kitty Perkins’ doll surfaced in stores, there was no other colored doll that depicted Black ...

Three hundred thousand Barbie dolls were sold in the first year ... designed by Kitty Black Perkins. Her box read: “She’s black! She’s beautiful! She’s dynamite!” By 1985, Barbie ...

The Black Doll Exhibition is presented by curator ... What initially started off as a fascination for Barbie/fashion dolls led Jacobs-Watson to study dolls more closely, in ways that most others ...

If you happen to have an older or limited-edition Barbie, you could stand to profit by selling it. Here’s a look at the 1950s Barbie dolls that ... she’s dressed in a black-and-white striped ...