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Family of Madam C. J. Walker Launch Black Hair Products at Walmart!
The Root spoke with the team behind MADAM by Madam C.J. Walker about how they are sharing Madam Walker's vision of healthy hair with a new generation
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Untangling History: A Rebranded Edition of A'Lelia Bundles' On Her Own Ground Adds New Chapters to the Story of Madam C.J. Walker
When it comes to the seemingly inexhaustible stream of films adapted from books, an age-old question inevitably arises: Do you read the book first or see the film? As one who finds merits in both approaches—as well as that rogue third option of picking one or the other and leaving it at that—I’m not here…
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Madam C.J. Walker, the Activist: A'Lelia Bundles Shares a Little-Told Story of Her Great-Great-Grandmother
“Activism is a very little-told story of Madam Walker’s life. She [Madam C.J. Walker] knew when she created hair care products that women needed some solutions for the infections—the scalp infections—but she knew that they needed, even more, education and financial independence.”—A’Lelia Bundles text It’s fairly well known that Madam C.J. Walker was the nation’s…
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Rebels of Black History: How ‘Joy Goddess’ A’Lelia Walker Created Revolutionary Spaces for the Artistic and the Sensual
She helped artists and intellectuals be the fullest versions of themselves in a country that treated blackness and queerness as a crime.