Instagram Account- @blackactionfashiondolls

My instagram account  is @blackactionfashion dolls.

For the month of February, I  am sharing my dolls and action figures with have a connection with the country of Africa.

Nana Makeba, President Nelson Mandela- Barbie Princess of South Africa

Barbie Model of the Moment- Nichelle- Ivory Coast

Gianni Antetokounmpo-Nigeria

                                  Queen Yaa Asantewaa, Queen Sheba, Queen Neferiti Ghana, Ethiopia, Egypt

Edi Gathega- Kenya

                                                                                                        Mattel-    Asha, Shani- names Swahili

President Obama and Ms. Obama- Kenya

Barbie- Dolls of the World Nigeria, Morocco, Kenya

Lt Uhura- name is Swahili

Integrity Dolls- Bianca Jordan, Adele Makeda, Dominqiue Makeda - Africa

Uncle Drew

I love watching basketball games and movies of the same.  Some of my favorite basketball movies are Fast Break, The Fish that Saved Pittsburgh. ( Dr J. is my favorite basketball player), Love and Basketball. I was looking forward  to watching  the movie Uncle Drew starring Kyrie Irving. I enjoyed the commercials featuring him.    I was excited to learn that an action figure would be created.  This is not the first basketball player to be featured as an old man.  Lebron James was the first to be created.  However, Lebron James was more a statute figure and Kyrie is an action figure.

I was pleasantly surprised by the action figure.

I have to go get another body, so that Kyrie and Uncle Drew can be featured together.

The negatives are that there is only one body and there feet are pegs.  They each have there own uniforms and sneakers.

                                                 Grandma Barbie and Uncle Drew.

Book Reading- An American Marriage

 I belong to a book club.   One of the selections was "An American Marriage" by Tayari Jones.  This is a story about a husband and wife's marriage and how it is changed because of one night.  The wife in the book is a doll maker.  She likes to create cloth artistic dolls. 

The book was good and I enjoyed the addition of the wife being a doll maker and you see how doll making is part of her life.

Jean Michel Basquiat Barbie

Jean Michel Basquiat Barbie

When I first heard about this doll, I was excited.  I always like getting male dolls.  I could add him to my collection.  It was not until I saw the pictures that I realized that it was an interpretation of the  female barbie doll representing Jean Michel Basquiat's Art.

The Box reads: " During the 1980's, as the art movement known as neo-expression gained traction, a young street artist from Brooklyn, NY emerged.  Barbie celebrates the influential work of Jean-Michel Basquiat.  His frenetic paintings are an infusion of graphic poetry, cultural dichotomies, and compelling social statements.  Basquiat played an essential role in elevating graffiti art from the underground to gaining well-deserved acclaim in the upper echelons of the art world."

The fabric on Barbie shows his various artworks in a wonderful pants suit.  The crown on her head represents his signature in his paintings showing intellect.

At an auction in 2017, one his paintings sold for 110.5 million dollars.

Barbie appears with Basquiat.  Basquiat was created by Medicom in the Real Life Heroes series years ago.

 

March is Women's History Month

  Celebrating the contributions of Women through the centuries.

I will use there real names, even though some appear as their characters. Read left to right.

Bottom row: Raven Symone, Anika Noni Rose, Olga Tannon, Bessie Coleman, Normaniy , Kristi Yamaguchi, Kathleen Johnson, Zoe Saldana, Kelly Rowland, Naomi Campbell, Jennifer Lopez, Halle Berry, Brandy, Butterfly McQueen, Kiely Williams, Cree Summer

Middle Row: Zendaya, China Anne McClain, China Anne McClain, Josephine Baker, Monique Coleman, Missy Copeland, Gabby Douglas,   Ava Duvernay, Cynthia Bailey,  Freema Agyeman, Rosa Parks, Jadah Marie
Top Row: Beyonce, Oprah, Raven Symone, Mindi Kaling, Danai Gurira,  Nichelle Nichols, Michelle Williams, Diahann Carroll, Storm, Angela Bassett, Harriet Tubman, Rosario Dawson, Beverly Johnson, Annette Charles, Flo Jo, Mel B, Ibtihaj Muhammad
Top Top Row: Diana Ross

Feb 29- So many men

Black History Month

February 29, 2020

Christie Tribute

Christie last day to celebrate her anniversary.  I thought since Steven has a new girlfriend that it would be ideal for her to take her last picture with all the new men from Mattel.  The new men came with numbers and not name.  The first one was 17.

Feb 28- The male celebrities

Black History Month

February 28, 2020

Christie Tribute

The male celebrities came to Christie’s Tribute.

The movies pay tribute:
Blade, PulpFiction, Men in Black, Batman, Andromeda, Group Member
Matrix, White House, Black Panther

Wesley Snipes, Samuel L. Jackson, Will Smith, Morgan Freeman, Keith Hamilton Cobb
Laurence Fisburne, President Barack Obama, Christie, Chadwick Boseman, JLA member