A Black Woman Is Running for President. Her Name Is Barbie.
tough!” on command is more hip to the times than the times themselves. The new set is in partnership with , an organization that supports women who run for office, aiming to help 250,000 women run for office before 2030. The hopeful, businesslike profile of the set's candidate doll echoes her real life predecessors—Senator Kamala Harris, who ran for the democratic nomination in 2020, Shirley Chisholm, the pioneering Black woman democrat candidate of 1972, and Carol Moseley Braun, the first Black woman senator, who ran for the Democratic nomination in 2004. And the new doll also comes on the heels of a range of Barbie dolls who have become increasingly diverse.