"I'm proud to know that little girls everywhere can now play with a Barbie who chooses to wear hijab! This is a childhood dream come true," the Olympian tweeted. Ibtihaj Muhammad made history at the ...

Fencer Ibtihaj Muhammad made history in 2016 when she became the first hijab-wearing U.S. athlete to qualify for the Olympics and the first Muslim-American woman to medal at the games. But the road to ...

A New Jersey elementary school teacher is suing Olympic medalist Ibtihaj Muhammad for viral social media posts made last year accusing her of forcibly removing a student’s hijab, a headscarf worn by ...

Ibtihaj Muhammad displays her Barbie "Shero" doll at Glamour's 2017 Women of the Year Summit. Credit: Getty Images for Glamour Barbie's newest "Shero" is Olympic fencer Ibtihaj Muhammad. Muhammad made ...

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Nov. 14 (UPI) --Barbie is honoring Muslim athlete Ibtihaj Muhammad with its first hijab-wearing doll. Mattel, which manufactures Barbie, unveiled a special edition doll in the 31-year-old Olympic ...

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Olympic fencer Ibtihaj Muhammad is making history again! Not only is she the first Muslim-American woman on a U.S. Olympic team to wear a hijab, Mattel has now made a custom Barbie doll to honor her.

"The Proudest Blue: A Story Of Hijab And Family" by Ibtihaj Muhammad, with S. K. Ali. Art by Hatem Aly. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR) The new children's book “The Proudest Blue: A Story of Hijab and Family” ...

This story appears in the Rio Olympics feature series. View the full series. U.S. Olympic team fencer Ibtihaj Muhammad poses for a portrait at the U.S. Olympic Committee media summit in Beverly Hills, ...

Barbie continues to be a more inclusive brand, as we now have the first Barbie to wear a hijab. The doll is modeled after Ibtihaj Muhammad, who was the first competing Olympian to wear a hijab while ...

Ibtihaj Muhammad was a college fencer at Duke University in 2004, the year her sport -- women's saber -- became an Olympic event at the Games in Athens, Greece. She was more than a decade away from ...