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Barbie Science Fair

NPR

Published February 26, 2001 at 9:00 PM PST

Kelley Griffin of Colorado Public Radio reports on a controversy over a grade school science fair project in Boulder. School authorities banned a project using black- and white-skinned Barbie dolls to test views on race.