National Retail Federation | February 12, 2021 Mattel honored the celebrated Maya Angelou with her own Barbie doll as part of the collector's “Black Label” series. The Barbie doll is sculpted to Angelou’s likeness, featuring a copy of her 1969 autobiography, “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,” in her hands. As the first female and the first Black poet to speak at a presidential inauguration, a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom and three Grammy Awards, and a nomin