Not a Trivial Pursuit Following the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s, some Black Americans worried that people knew little...

In 1949 Sara Lee Creech, a businesswoman and social activist of Belle Glade, Florida, observed two African American girls playing with...

It all began following the 1965 Watts Riots in Los Angeles, California. Louis S. Smith, II and Robert Hall worked with civil rights...

Strong Museum of Play featured an interview with Jacob R. Miles III and several other people instrumental in leading and fostering...

Super Soaker® U.S. Patent No. 4,591,071 Inducted in 2022 Engineer and entrepreneur Lonnie Johnson is the inventor of the Super Soaker®, a...

How Yla Eason’s Olmec Toys Reshaped the Multicultural Toy Market Like millions of parents, Yla Eason bought a He-Man figure for her son....

One of the most prominent African American designers of the 20th century, Charles Harrison transformed postwar living in the US with his...

Born in racially segregated South Carolina in 1948, Louvenia (Kitty) Black Perkins grew up playing with white dolls gifted by her...

Gerald “Jerry” Lawson, a Black video game engineer who changed the way we play. Born in Brooklyn, New York in 1940, Lawson grew up with...

Beulah Mae Mitchell was on the first Barbie production line at Mattel before becoming one of the first Black employees at the company’s...

(Doll) Names: Christine, Debbie, and Other Dolls by Beatrice Wright Brewington (B. Wright) Made by and When: B. Wright Toy Company, Ltd.,...