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Shock-jock, Don Imus, called the Rutgers women’s basketball team nappy headed hos.
Madame C.J Walker, first black millionaire, invented the pressing comb.
Pressing comb- metal comb heated to straighten natural hair.
Chris Rock created the documentary, “Good Hair,” inspired by his daughter crying t o him about not having good hair.
According to the Urban dictionary good hair means soft, manageable, long, as opposed to “nappy” of “bad” hair.
Lonnice Brittenum Bonner wrote a novel titled “Good hair”.
Madame C.J Walker, first black millionaire, invented the pressing comb.
Pressing comb- metal comb heated to straighten natural hair.
Chris Rock created the documentary, “Good Hair,” inspired by his daughter crying t o him about not having good hair.
According to the Urban dictionary good hair means soft, manageable, long, as opposed to “nappy” of “bad” hair.
Lonnice Brittenum Bonner wrote a novel titled “Good hair”.
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Hello Lizzen Up,
ReplyDeleteGlad to see you sharing knowledge. We all have much to learn each day.
Just wanted to let you know that Madam Walker--the early twentieth century entrepreneur, philanthropist and political activist--truly was a pioneer of the modern, multi-billion dollar hair care and cosmetics industries, but she did not invent the hot comb. I know lots of folks have learned this and believe it to be true, but as her biographer and great-great-granddaughter, I've done several decades of research about her and can tell you with a certainty that there were hot combs long before she stared her business in 1906. In fact, Bloomingdales and Sears advertised hot combs in the early 1890s for their presumably mostly white clientele while Madam Walker still was a washerwoman. What Madam Walker did--as a person who employed thousands of black women and helped them become financially independent--and as a woman who transformed herself from a laundress to an international businesswoman--at least in my mind, is much more important that the hot comb.
For more info, I hope you'll visit my website at www.madamcjwalker.com
Best wishes,
A'Lelia Bundles