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Watch the First Trailer for Netflix's New Series About Black Beauty Mogul Madam C.J. Walker

Photo credit: Amanda Matlovich/Netflix
Photo credit: Amanda Matlovich/Netflix

From Town & Country

Pat McGrath Labs, the makeup line created by legendary makeup artist Pat McGrath, may be valued at $1 billion, but the original black beauty mogul was Madam C.J. Walker. Despite being born to sharecroppers and orphaned at age 7, Walker built a haircare empire by selling scalp treatments, amassing enormous wealth along the way.

"Walker was an entrepreneur, hair care industry pioneer, philanthropist, patron of the arts, political activist and one of the 20th century’s most influential businesswomen," wrote her great-great-granddaughter A'Lelia Bundles.


Now, Walker's story is heading to Netflix in a four-part miniseries, which premieres on March 20. Oscar-winner Octavia Spencer will both star in and serve as an executive producer on the program.

Per Deadline, "Madam C.J. Walker tells the untold and highly irreverent story of black hair care pioneer and mogul Madam C.J. Walker and how she overcame hostile turn-of-the-century America, epic rivalries, tumultuous marriages and some trifling family to become America’s first black, self-made female millionaire."

The name of the series has since seemingly changed to Self Made: Inspired by the Life of Madam C.J. Walker, a program which was written by Nicole Asher and is based on the book On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C.J. Walker, a biography of the entrepreneur by Bundles. It will also star Blair Underwood and Tiffany Haddish, and Lebron James will serve as an executive producer on the show.

Watch the first trailer up top.

Photo credit: David Lee/Netflix
Photo credit: David Lee/Netflix

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