Black women are working together to honor the legacy of Madam C.J. Walker in the limited Netflix series, Self Made: Inspired by the Life of Madam C.J.
Walker. Starring Octavia Spencer, it follows the hero’s journey to becoming the first self-made female millionaire in the United States.
Walker’s transition from laundress to beauty mogul has inspired Black women and girls for generations, but this is a rare time that they’ve been at the forefront of telling her story.
Co-directors DeMane Davis and Kasi Lemmons, director of photography Kira Kelly, co-Showrunners Elle Johnson and Janine Sherman Barrios, writer Nicole Jefferson Asher and author A’lelia Bundles, the great-great granddaughter of Walker, sat with Netflix’s Strong Black Lead to
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