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A woman of Afro-Carribean descent, Susan L. Taylor has touched many for over 30 years. She has encouraged women & men how to radiate beauty from the inside out. What an inspiration!
Her Accomplishments Include Awards
Honorary doctorate of Humane Letters, Lincoln University, 1988; National Association of Negro Business & Professional Women's Clubs business award, 1983; Howard University Excellence in Media Award, 1982; Women in Communications Matrix Award.
Thank you Ms. Taylor for contributing positive images for women of color worldwide.
I LOVE Tyra. I respect what she is trying to do. Promote self love etc. As many young women look up to her, she is trying to be a better role model in view if Chris Rock's new movie Good Hair.
I'm sorry Tyra, I am on the fence with this one. As a true DIVA, I don't know if I can just completely abandon my wigs & ponytails. Just like makeup, they enhance what I'm already working with. LOL
Chris Rock's Movie "Good Hair" will be showing in theaters this fall. When Chris Rock’s daughter, Lola, came up to him crying and asked, “Daddy, how come I don’t have good hair?” the bewildered comic committed himself to search the ends of the earth and the depths of black culture to find out who had put that question into his little girl's head! Director Jeff Stilson’s camera followed the funnyman, and the result is Good Hair, a wonderfully insightful and entertaining, yet remarkably serious, documentary about African American hair culture.An exposé of comic proportions that only Chris Rock could pull off, Good Hair visits hair salons and styling battles, scientific laboratories, and Indian temples to explore the way black hairstyles impact the activities, pocketbooks, sexual relationships, and self-esteem of black people. Celebrities such as Ice-T, Kerry Washington, Nia Long, Paul Mooney, Raven Symoné, Maya Angelou, and Reverend Al Sharpton all candidly offer their stories and observations to Rock while he struggles with the task of figuring out how to respond to his daughter’s question. What he discovers is that black hair is a big business that doesn’t always benefit the black community and little Lola’s question might well be bigger than his ability to convince her that the stuff on top of her head is nowhere near as important as what is inside.
Recipient of A Special Jury Prize: U.S. Documentary.
Check out this video.
IDK, I just may rock an afro that day. LOL Still on the fence just lipgloss, straight from the shower. Picked out! no heat. About to make some dinner for the troops. What are your thoughts? Wig/Weave wearers, will you be joining Tyra on Sept 8. wearing your natural locks?
follow the link to an intersting article http://tv.msn.com/tv/article.aspx?news=429978>1=28103
Source of info: http://www.posh24.com/tyra_banks/tyra_banks_is_going_wigless http://www.posh24.com/tyra_banks/tyra_banks_is_going_wigless http://festival.sundance.org/2009/film_events/films/good_hair
Madame CJ Walker was born in 1867 in poverty-stricken rural Louisiana. The daughter of former slaves, she was orphaned at the age of seven. Walker and her older sister survived by working in the cotton fields of Delta and Vicksburg, Mississippi. She married at age fourteen and her only daughter was born in 1885. After her husband's death two years later, she traveled to St. Louis to join her four brothers who had established themselves as barbers. Working as a laundrywoman, she managed to save enough money to educate her daughter, and became involved in activities with the National Association of Colored Women.
Inspired by Need During the 1890s, Sarah began to suffer from a scalp ailment that caused her to lose some of her hair. Embarrassed by her appearance, she experimented with a variety of home-made remedies and products made by another black woman entrepreneur, Annie Malone. In 1905, Sarah became a sales agent for Malone and moved to Denver, where she married Charles Joseph Walker.
Madam Walker's Wonderful Hair Grower Changing her name to Madame CJ Walker, Sarah founded her own business and began selling her own product called Madam Walker's Wonderful Hair Grower, a scalp conditioning and healing formula. To promote her products, she embarked on an exhausting sales drive throughout the South and Southeast selling her products door to door, giving demonstrations, and working on sales and marketing strategies. In 1908, she opened a college in Pittsburgh to train her "hair culturists."
The Walker System Eventually, her products formed the basis of a thriving national corporation employing at one point over 3,000 people. Her Walker System, which included a broad offering of cosmetics, licensed Walker Agents, and Walker Schools offered meaningful employment and personal growth to thousands of Black women. Madame Walker’s aggressive marketing strategy combined with relentless ambition led her to be labeled as the first known African-American woman to become a self-made millionaire. Having amassed a fortune in fifteen years, this pioneering businesswoman died at the age of 52. Her prescription for success was perseverance, hard work, faith in herself and in God, "honest business dealings" and of course, quality products. "There is no royal flower-strewn path to success," she once observed. "And if there is, I have not found it - for if I have accomplished anything in life it is because I have been willing to work hard."
Improved Permanent Wave Machine An employee of Madame CJ Walker’s empire, Marjorie Joyner invented an improved permanent wave machine. This device patented in 1928, curled or "permed" women’s hair for a relatively lengthy period of time. The wave machine was popular among women white and black allowing for longer-lasting wavy hair styles. Joyner went on to become a prominent figure in Madame CJ Walker’s industry, though she never profited directly from her invention, the assigned intellectual property of the Walker Company.
Madame Walker on Herself "I am a woman who came from the cotton fields of the South. From there I was promoted to the washtub. From there I was promoted to the cook kitchen. And from there I promoted myself into the business of manufacturing hair goods and preparations. I have built my own factory on my own ground" - Madame Walker
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