'Grey's Anatomy' creator Shonda Rhimes joins TODAY to discuss her new Netflix documentary 'Black Barbie' that explores the iconic doll's cultural impact and the importance of representation in media.
More than a decade ago, filmmaker Lagueria Davis decided to spend the day visiting her aunt, Beulah Mae Mitchell. As her aunt poured her a drink, she began telling Davis the story of how she started working for Mattel in 1959 and later played an influential role in the toy maker’s launch of Black Barbie in 1980.
com that Mattel did not anticipate the success of Black Barbie. “I think that Mattel didn’t really know what they had done in the beginning,” she says. The company later released a line of Black dolls called Shani that Perkins also worked on. With Shani, Perkins adds, “I think that they realized they didn’t put enough behind Black Barbie when she was started, so they corrected that mistake.
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