
A New Line of Dolls Hopes to Empower Black Girls
Yelitsa Jean-Charles, a 21-year-old from Queens, New York, started a campaign called Healthy Roots, a new line of dolls with hair that embodies natural, African-American hair. After years of heat damaging and trying to change her own hair, Jean-Charles now embraces and is proud of her natural tresses and hopes that her dolls will teach girls of color to do the same. In an interview with Taryn Finley for The Huffington Post, Jean-Charles says that she realizes how dolls “can i