Madame Walker began selling her product door-to-door in the black community. The company became well known, not only for its hair care products, but also for its extensive agent system, in which ...

To this day, Madam CJ Walker products can be purchased in stores - an unlikely legacy for a woman who toiled in poverty for decades and whose parents had been enslaved. But "for many years Madam ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Madam C.J. Walker is a household name in the beauty industry. She is known for revolutionizing hair care with her line of ...

Madam C.J. Walker created a vast business empire a few decades later by selling a line of homemade hair care products for Black women. At the time of her death in 1919, Walker was considered the ...

Also during the 1900s, many hair products were created to straighten hair, rather than curl it. By 1906, Annie Turnbo Malone, owner of the Poro company, and Madam C.J. Walker were marketing extremely ...

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 ...

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For her television work, Spencer received an Emmy Award nomination for her role in 2020's Self Made: Inspired by the Life of Madam C.J. Walker. She also plays the lead role in the Apple TV series ...

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.