I was joking, of course, but mostly about the holiday; the history and politics of African-American hair ... (in the face of black male resistance) as a black business woman during the worst ...

The first Black American billionaire is Robert Johnson ... Who Was the First Self-Made Black Woman Millionaire? Madam C.J. Walker is usually cited as the first Black woman to be a “self-made ...

Walker ultimately employed 40,000 Black women and men across the ... Guiness Book of World Records as the first self-made American woman millionaire who didn’t inherit or marry into wealth.

She believed Black women should be financially independent and provided training and sales jobs for more than 40,000 African American individuals. She eventually became a millionaire and paid it ...