A hair-care entrepreneur, she was the richest, best-known Black woman of her day ...

Protein treatments are a polarizing subject in the natural hair community. Some find them unnecessary while others claim it’s the key to growing long, healthy hair. Whether you choose to use a protein ...

Long before women could vote or open bank accounts on their own, long before Civil Rights laws existed, and long before “entrepreneurship” was a buzzword, Madam C.J. Walker built a beauty empire that ...

Madam C.J. Walker was born Sarah Breedlove in 1867 in Delta, Louisiana, just two years after the end of the Civil War. Her parents had been enslaved, and she was the first in her family born into ...