For generations, Black Barbie has been a symbol of power, upward mobility, and imagination.
Angela Williams, a black writer in her 40s, remembers receiving her first black Barbie doll like it was yesterday.“My first Black Barbie came as an inheritance from one of my sisters. I have three older sisters and I think she was probably six or seven when I got it,” she tells TODAY.com.Although the doll was missing some accessories due to her sisters' lack of consideration for the toy, Angela Williams said she still loved the doll like no other.“I think by the time it happened to me, his shoes were gone. But I didn't care that she didn't have shoes…
