Healthy Roots Dolls / Detroit, MI
Season 8 Episode 11 | 26m 49sVideo has Closed Captions
This is a story about empowerment, self-love and raw ambition.
Yelitsa Jean-Charles never had a doll that looked like her growing up. The one time her parents gave her a black doll, she burst into tears because she thought that it wasn’t the “pretty one”. Since then, Yelitsa has made it her goal to make sure that no other children feel the way she did about her own appearance growing up, and created Healthy Roots Dolls.
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Healthy Roots Dolls / Detroit, MI
Season 8 Episode 11 | 26m 49sVideo has Closed Captions
Yelitsa Jean-Charles never had a doll that looked like her growing up. The one time her parents gave her a black doll, she burst into tears because she thought that it wasn’t the “pretty one”. Since then, Yelitsa has made it her goal to make sure that no other children feel the way she did about her own appearance growing up, and created Healthy Roots Dolls.
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Start Up is a local public television program presented by Detroit PBS
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