The intensity of Walker’s early jobs began to cause hair loss, and it was out of this unfortunate circumstance that grew her “secret” formula for a scalp ointment that promoted healthy hair growth.

Her struggles with hair loss - a common problem at the time due to infrequent washing - inspired her to start her business, the Madam CJ Walker Manufacturing Co in 1906, which sold a "treatment ...

From the childhood memories of young women to Kamala Harris's center-stage presidential run, the silk press has been there ...

Stories of the first black millionaires Madam C.J. Walker and Mary Ellen Pleasant. Black History’s Hidden Figures That Inspired Today’s Innovators Five groundbreaking black innovators you ...

Handwritten recipe for Poro Hair Grower. Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum ... By 1906, Annie Turnbo Malone, owner of the Poro company, and Madam C.J. Walker were marketing extremely ...

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — A’Lelia Bundles, great-great granddaughter of American entrepreneur and philanthropist Madam C.J. Walker, is taking a stand on the importance of teaching inclusive Black ...

Madam C.J. Walker created a vast business empire a few decades later by selling a line of homemade hair care products for ... says these assets have been a growth driver for Fidelity in recent ...

Spencer added that playing Madam C.J. Walker – the first female self-made millionaire in America who made her money selling hair products for black women – had reminded her of the importance ...

Dr. Amanda Foreman visits the family archive of Madame C. J. Walker to examine her rise to power. Photographs, documents and artifacts illustrate Walker’s journey from growing up on an old slave ...

She says rosemary extract, biotin, niacin, iron, zinc and collagen can all help to encourage hair growth. “Using products that block the hormone dihydrotestosterone (DHT) can help fight ...

These are the hair growth techniques I used and the products that worked for me. While many people spent their teen years crying over boys, I spent mine shedding tears over my hair. After every ...

An African American woman becomes the first female, self-made millionaire by creating hair products at the turn of the century. With Octavia Spencer. Produced by SpringHill Entertainment.