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

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

Rayna Rayford
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