Remember These Black Dolls Before Issa Rae’s President Barbie?

Essence Magazine:

By Rayna Reid Rayford ·Updated July 21, 2023

Taking a walk down memory lane, I can remember walking around a store and not being able to find a Black doll that looked like me. A fact which many can attest to, “[a]s many Black kids growing up in the 1980′s will tell you, finding Black dolls was difficult.”

Thankfully, thirty years later this is less of an issue. With the release

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