Untold Stories of Black History at the Kan-Kan continues with a special free community screening of the documentary BLACK BARBIE on Saturday Feb 22nd, followed by a Q&A with the film’s director Lagueria Davis.

Film Synopsis: Black Barbie is an award winning documentary that celebrates the momentous impact three Black women at Mattel had on the evolution of the Barbie brand as we know it. Through these charismatic insiders’s stories, the documentary tells the story of how the first Black Barbie came to be in 1980, examining the importance of representation and how dolls can be crucial to the formation of identity and imagination. Black Barbie earned a recent NAACP nomination for Best Documentary.