[dropcap]Netflix[/dropcap] will bring the story of one of history’s most trailblazing Black entrepreneurs to life, courtesy of an upcoming limited series. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″]
Variety reported yesterday (July 29) that the streaming giant confirmed the still-untitled biopic series on beauty mogul Madam C.J. Walker during the Television Critics Association summer tour. The project uses A’Lelia Bundles’ biography ”On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C.J. Walker ” as its source material. In it, Bundles, Walker’s great-great-granddaughter and one of the show’s consulting producers, chronicles how a daughter of enslaved parents built a multigenerational business around her innovative hair products for Black women. The book also shows how Walker leveraged her wealth, which made her the first Black millionaire businesswoman in the United States, into philanthropic work.
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