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‘Black Barbie’ Trailer Explores How Three Black Women Revolutionized the Doll Brand
Netflix has released a new trailer for 'Black Barbie,' it's look at the three women who revolutionized the doll brand with the first Black Barbie.
The film is produced, written, and directed by Lagueria Davis, the great niece of Beulah Mae Mitchell, a Black employee at Mattel who asked the creator of Barbie, Ruth Handler, to “make a Barbie that looks like me” in the Sixties. According to Variety, Mitchell landed a job at Mattel in 1955 and was one of the first to start advocating for a Black Barbie in the early Sixties. Black Barbie is the newest Shondaland-produced project on Netflix after the likes of Bridgerton, Queen Charlotte, and Inventing Anna.
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