Loretta Whitfield, creator of a doll with a difference, dies at 79
Loretta Whitfield, creator of a doll with a difference, dies at 79 By Clay Risen New York Times,Updated February 26, 2021, 1:55 p.m. Email to a Friend Loretta Whitfield in 2018Family Photo In the early 1980s, Melvin Whitfield was working for a health nonprofit in West Africa when he came to a realization: Few of the children he encountered had dolls, and the dolls he did see were modeled after white European faces and bodies. Whitfield, who is Black, returned to Washington in 1983, around the time his girlfriend, Loretta Thomas, was coming to her own doll-inspired despair after trying to find...
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