But an internal switch flipped in 2011 when, at 33, she moved in with her aunt, whose walls towered with beady-eyed baby dolls ... Black Barbie was born. Mellie Phillips, a Black woman who ...

short hair, and a wrap skirt that could actually show skin.” Who made the first Black Barbie and why? South Carolina native Kitty Perkins made the first Black Barbie doll in 1980. People ...