Mom and 9-Year-Old Son Launch ‘Our Brown Boy Joy’ Doll Line Honoring Black Youth Who’ve Died. (Photo Credit: Ryan Harris Imagery) “It is important to me because I want the world to think ...

Now the owner of a doll line dedicated to Black boys, Lil D decided to use it as a platform to pay homage to 17-year-old Trayvon Martin who was shot and killed by a neighborhood watch captain in ...

Black dolls have been around since people began making dolls, but in the U.S., ... Black girls and boys regularly play with white dolls and action figures without any fanfare.

Her idea for creating fashionable male dolls is her quest for black boys to see who they truly are. In 2009, she made the Positively Perfect Dolls (PPD), consisting of 18’’and 14’’ baby dolls.

According to Cleveland.com, Demetrius Maurice Davis, Jr., who’s nine years old, and his mother, Luciana Gilmore, started the business Our Brown Boy Joy, which makes dolls of young Black boys, to ...

Inventor, Jennifer Pierre, launched a new line of dolls designed for boys of color. ... The first prototype is an 18-inch doll named Jaylen, designed to look like a young black boy.

But boy toys have been slow to progress in the era of increased attention to early gender conditioning. Dolls are missing from boys’ play, and the world is suffering for it, according to Boy Story.

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 ...

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