Have you ever tried to do a twist out on a doll with plastic hair? We can tell you — it ain't easy. That's why one young mother created Angelica. The 18-inch doll has long Afro hair that you can twist ...

“My goal is to have a doll line that is available to young girls all over the world – anywhere from California to Africa – anywhere that young girls need to have dolls that look like them,” says Karen ...

In 2018 Lola Ogundele was looking for a toy doll that looked like her daughter, but she struggled to find anything suitable. The Londoner therefore decided to create one and sell it herself, and in ...

Barbie gets a lot of heat nowadays. People shout at her for her figure. They complain about her plastic perfectness and general lack of realism. But they forget just how pivotal Barbie has been in ...

Doll company American Girl has made steps in recent years to diversify its popular lineup and did so again this past Friday with the naming of its “Girl of the Year” doll. The latest is ...

We're seeing slow but steady progress with diversity in the fashion industry. But when it comes to the unspoken ideals beyond industry walls, the beauty standard of fair skin and straight hair still ...

American Girl has embraced Motown and civil-rights era Detroit with the release late this summer of a 9-year-old African-American doll and aspiring singer named Melody Ellison. The BeForever doll grew ...

Barbie she’s not. Meet Gwen Thompson, the newest addition to the American Girl canon of dolls — the wildly suc cessful, extremely expensive brand of faux children that are sold out of a four-story ...