Since Barbie's Fashionista line launched five years ago, Mattel has added a wide variety of dolls. Some differ in physical ways like skin tone and body type, while others reflect differently abled ...

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Yelitsa Jean-Charles spent her childhood hoping to find a Black doll that looked like her but was never able to find one while browsing the toy aisles. Jean-Charles, a first-generation Haitian ...

BROCKTON — Widline Pyrame struggled with her hair until learning to embrace it. As a child in Haiti, she turned to perm chemical treatments to make her kinky hair straight. It wasn't until later, when ...