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A new line from Mattel lifts six of the dolls out of their historical contexts and drops them into contemporary fashions. Purists aren’t pleased. By Gina Cherelus To celebrate the 40th anniversary of ...

A new range of American Girl dolls should invoke nostalgia - but many fans have been left fuming over a modern makeover of the beloved classic. The American Girl brand announced it was releasing a ...

A few weeks ago, my Instagram algorithm decided I needed to see a post about how American Girl dolls handled their divorces. Intrigued, I briefly scanned the post, Molly told her spouse, “I survived a ...

The American Girl doll brand is celebrating its 40th anniversary in a big way in 2026. Mattel, Inc. announced in a press release on Wednesday that two book titles celebrating the landmark anniversary ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In a Dakar fishing village, a surf academy run by Black Girls Surf swaps waves for school, helping 20 girls return to education.

For generations, Seynabou Tall's ancestors have fished, dived and rowed off the coast of Dakar. It's the same place where the 14-year-old, who quit school nearly four years ago, is now learning to ...

It was only a matter of time before toy companies brought in the big guns. And by big guns, I mean Rumi, Zoey, and Mira from Huntr/x, the fictional band at the center of Sony Animation and Netflix's ...

NEW YORK – The American Girls are turning 40, but when you look at them, you’d never know it. They are forever 10, schoolgirls with hair bows and a semi-smile that reveals two front teeth. You know ...

On a recent bus commute into New York City, I met a woman from my neighborhood who runs a small side hustle restoring American Girl dolls. She described repairing frayed hair, sourcing garments, and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On a recent bus commute into New York City, I met a woman from my neighborhood who runs a small side hustle restoring American ...