Mattel releases three Barbie dolls for Día de Muertos
One of the dolls, a collaboration with Mexican fashion designer Benito Santos, has already sold out.
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Madam C.J. Walker, the first U.S. self-made female millionaire, gets her own Barbie
Businesswoman Madam C.J. Walker is the latest to join Barbie's line of Inspiring Women dolls. Walker's great-great-granddaughter said she hopes the doll will show kids they too can be entrepreneurs.
Mattel Launches New Gender-Neutral Dolls
The toy manufacturing giant behind Barbie aims to allow nonbinary youth to play with gender expression in its new line of dolls.
Barbie Heads Into New Ground With Hijab-Sporting Doll
The doll is modeled after fencer Ibtihaj Muhammed, the first U.S. Olympic athlete to compete in a hijab, who said she would sew head scarves onto her Barbies as a child.
Mattel Introduces New Diverse Ken Dolls; Hopes To Reverse Sales Slump
The toymaker rolled out 15 new dolls Tuesday with an array of body types, hairstyles and skin tones.
Dolls With Disabilities Escape The Toy Hospital, Go Mainstream
Longtime toymakers are broadening their horizons — offering dolls and other figures with hearing aids, wheelchairs and insulin pumps in city scenes, not just hospitals. That's a start, activists say.
Misty Copeland Inspires A Barbie 'Sheroes' Doll
Misty Copeland says she played with Barbie dolls until she was 13 — the same year she started ballet.
Roundup: Here's What People Are Saying About Barbie's Diversity Makeover
Mattel is rethinking how the Barbie brand could represent women of all colors, shapes and sizes. Some are buying it. Others, not so much.
Book News: Ursula K. Le Guin Steals The Show At The National Book Awards
In a ceremony that saw both icons and newcomers honored, it was a fiery speech by the science fiction legend that had attendees talking. Also: A Jonathan Safran Foer book gets adapted to ballet.