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Today’s shopping tip: buy your daughter a dark-skinned Barbie. The African-American beauties can be had for a song–at least at Walmart. Prices of the black dolls have been found in some stores to be cut way, way back–down to less than half of the white dolls.
Have you seen the new African-American Barbies? I haven’t. But according to 
Back in 1967, Mattel came out with their first so-called African-American Barbie doll. Her name was Colored Francie and other than her hair and skin color, she looked exactly like the white Francie doll. Since that time, the toy company hasn’t done much better in creating a Barbie doll that African-American girls could identify with. But last month, Mattel gave it another shot with the debut of three new 



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