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Episode 5.11: Interview with A’Lelia Bundles Fanm on Films
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In our season finale, we chat with writer, producer and journalist A’Lelia Bundles, great-great granddaughter of Madam C.J. Walker. Bundles’ New York Times notable book On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C. J. Walker is the first full-scale biography of Madam Walker—the legendary Black entrepreneur and philanthropist. We talk about the legacy of Madam Walker, her thoughts about the Netflix series and Madam Walker’s connection to Haiti.
After a 30-year career as an executive and Emmy award winning producer with ABC News and NBC News, Bundles is now the brand historian for MCJW, a line of hair care products inspired by Madam Walker and created by Sundial Brands. She is a trustee of Columbia University and chair emerita of the National Archives Foundation.
Bundles founded the Madam Walker Family Archives and is on the advisory boards of the March on Washington Film Festival, the Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America at Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute and the Smithsonian’s American Women’s History Initiative.
She is a graduate of Harvard College and Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism and has participated in writing residencies at Yaddo and MacDowell.
Watch the trailer for Self Made below:
In our season finale, we chat with writer, producer and journalist A’Lelia Bundles, great-great granddaughter of Madam C.J. Walker. Bundles’ New York Times notable book On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C. J. Walker is the first full-scale biography of Madam Walker—the legendary Black entrepreneur and philanthropist. We talk about the legacy of Madam Walker, her thoughts about the Netflix series and Madam Walker’s connection to Haiti.
After a 30-year career as an executive and Emmy award winning producer with ABC News and NBC News, Bundles is now the brand historian for MCJW, a line of hair care products inspired by Madam Walker and created by Sundial Brands. She is a trustee of Columbia University and chair emerita of the National Archives Foundation.
Bundles founded the Madam Walker Family Archives and is on the advisory boards of the March on Washington Film Festival, the Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America at Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute and the Smithsonian’s American Women’s History Initiative.
She is a graduate of Harvard College and Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism and has participated in writing residencies at Yaddo and MacDowell.
Watch the trailer for Self Made below:
42 min
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