“Did you have a Black doll growing up?” asked host Kristen L. Pope at the start of this week’s episode of Basic Black about the history of Black dolls. As a child in Haiti, Widline Pyrame’s only ...

The first Black Barbie debuted in 1979, two decades after Mattel introduced the original Barbie. Before then, several Black American dolls were added to the Barbie franchise, like 'colored Francie' ...