Not a lab. Not a manufacturing facility. Not a formulation chemist with a whiteboard full of synthetic compounds. Just an aloe vera plant growing in a home...

The beauty industry was never built for everyone. It especially wasn't built for women who look like me, or for children with 4C hair, or for mothers on a budget trying to do the best for their families with whatever the pharmacy will give them...

Madam Walker wasn't just selling hair products. She was building an infrastructure for Black women's economic independence.