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Fifth Street

March 3, 2022

Mar 03, 2022


This Strip attraction about our fragile earth aims to entertain — and educate | Who knew Barbie was such a cultural barometer? | A coffee shop contest brings out the Downtown dreamers
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Mattel's new Creatable World dolls.

Mattel Launches New Gender-Neutral Dolls

Sep 25, 2019
The toy manufacturing giant behind Barbie aims to allow nonbinary youth to play with gender expression in its new line of dolls.
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The Two-Way

Barbie Heads Into New Ground With Hijab-Sporting Doll

Nov 14, 2017
The doll is modeled after fencer Ibtihaj Muhammed, the first U.S. Olympic athlete to compete in a hijab, who said she would sew head scarves onto her Barbies as a child.
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The "broad"-bodied Ken is part of a new line of the dolls Mattel rolled out Tuesday. The updated Ken dolls will have a variety of skin tones, body shapes and hair styles.

Mattel Introduces New Diverse Ken Dolls; Hopes To Reverse Sales Slump

Jun 20, 2017
The toymaker rolled out 15 new dolls Tuesday with an array of body types, hairstyles and skin tones.
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Shots - Health News
The "Diabetes Care Kit," designed to fit American Girl dolls, comes with insulin pumps, pens, glucose tablets and a blood sugar monitor.

Dolls With Disabilities Escape The Toy Hospital, Go Mainstream

Dec 18, 2016
Longtime toymakers are broadening their horizons — offering dolls and other figures with hearing aids, wheelchairs and insulin pumps in city scenes, not just hospitals. That's a start, activists say.
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Ballerina Misty Copeland poses with the Barbie doll that's based on her, in this promotional photo released by Mattel.

Misty Copeland Inspires A Barbie 'Sheroes' Doll

May 02, 2016
Misty Copeland says she played with Barbie dolls until she was 13 — the same year she started ballet.
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Code Switch
The latest Mattel Barbie dolls created to increase representation and diversity.

Roundup: Here's What People Are Saying About Barbie's Diversity Makeover

Feb 05, 2016
Mattel is rethinking how the Barbie brand could represent women of all colors, shapes and sizes. Some are buying it. Others, not so much.
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Jane Smiley

Nov 04, 2011
Novelist Jane Smiley has written about campus life, farm life in the Midwest, realtors in New England and many other facets of American life. Her latest novel is Private Life, which follows the life of an unlucky woman who marries well but finds other problems that confront her.
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