The iconic Black Barbie celebrates nearly half a century of representation this month with a tribute that's making waves across social media.

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 ...

Mattel initially produced a couple of Black dolls in the late 1960s ... As she grew older, Perkins became interested in fashion and studied fashion design. Five years later, she gave an interview ...

The dolls also featured the same exact design ... but were followed up by the Asha Barbies — a trio of Black Barbies wearing fashion inspired by African textiles — in 1994.

from the designer behind the first-ever Black Barbie doll to emerging designers making a name for themselves, to young girls considering a future career in fashion design. Knowing that Black designers ...