NEW ORLEANS -- Among porcelain antique dolls, whimsical Kewpies, Barbie dolls and even paper dolls, cloth dolls in the image of African-Americans drew special attention among more than 1,200 ...

This month marks the Barbie doll’s 60th birthday, with a lot of attendant hoopla. Target has launched a commemorative “girl power” collection. New coffee table books trace the doll’s fashion savvy, ...

The Black Baby Doll Drive is held annually at Mary Baldwin University. Around 300 young girls in Virginia will unwrap the gift of a Black baby doll on Christmas morning thanks to the generosity of ...

The Black Doll Exhibition is presented by curator, Lisa Jacobs-Watson in partnership with NYS Senator, April Baskin and Buffalo & Erie County Public Library System. Over the course of 5+ years, this ...

Harriet Jacobs, who escaped enslavement to write Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861), created these three dolls for the children of writer Nathaniel Parker Willis around 1850-60. Private ...

I like to imagine the voyage of a single porcelain doll I owned as a kid. Her head was made in Armand Marseille’s factory in Thuringia, Germany. Her face, maybe 1 of 1,000 made that day, was produced ...