CULTURE
The Black Woman Who Beat White Men at Their Own Game
Madame C.J. Walker: how she became a millionaire and why we probably couldn’t handle it. Everyone wants her future. No one wants her past.Born in 1867 to parents who had been enslaved, orphaned by seven, washing laundry for $1.50 a week by her twenties. Madame C.J. Walker had every reason to fail. But she didn’t.
Do You Suffer? You’re a Woman. That’s Normal
That’s what we’ve been told for centuries. Not in a single sentence and rarely outright. More often between the lines, in doctors’ surgeries, in…
The Black Woman Who Beat White Men at Their Own Game
Madame C.J. Walker: how she became a millionaire and why we probably couldn’t handle it. Everyone wants her future. No one wants her past.Born…
