A 9.5 MILLION MeToo SKELETON FALLS OUT OF CBS' CLOSET

 “In front of the cast and crew, Mr. Weatherly remarked on her appearance, and made a rape joke and a comment about a threesome. Shortly after Ms. Dushku confronted the star about his behavior, she was written off the show. She believed her time on “Bull” came to a sudden end as a result of retaliation... 

After she went through mediation with CBS [--led by Les Moonves for decades until #MeToo got him too--], the company agreed to a confidential settlement that would pay her $9.5 million, roughly the equivalent of what Ms. Dushku would have earned if she had stayed on as a cast member for four seasons...”

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/13/business/media/cbs-bull-weatherly-dushku-sexual-harrasment.html

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REST IN POWER SINGER ACTIVIST NANCY WILSON / SILENT NIGHT WITH KIMIKO ITOH

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     Born in Ohio, Wilson was a frequent collaborator with Cannonball Adderley among others. She participated in the Selma March in 1965 and received an NAACP Image Award in 1998. Wilson was also a successful actress and host, working on Hawaii 5-0 and Police Story. Although she never considered herself a jazz singer, she hosted NPR’s “Jazz Profiles” series. She is survived by her children and grandchildren

Read More: https://www.vulture.com/2018/12/guess-who-i-saw-today-singer-nancy-wilson-has-died.html 

     Nancy Wilson, whose skilled and flexible approach to singing provided a key bridge between the sophisticated jazz-pop vocalists of the 1950s and the powerhouse pop-soul singers of the 1960s and ‘70s, died Thursday at her home in Pioneertown, Calif. She was 81.
     Wilson’s death, which came after a long illness, was confirmed by her manager, Devra Hall Levy.
     In her long and celebrated career, Wilson performed American standards, jazz ballads, Broadway show tunes, R&B torch songs and middle-of-the-road pop pieces, all delivered with a heightened sense of a song’s narrative.
     “I have a gift for telling stories, making them seem larger than life,” she told the Los Angeles Times in 1993. “I love the vignette, the plays within the song.”

~Post Gazette

Read More: https://www.post-gazette.com/ae/music/2018/12/14/Nancy-Wilson-Dies-at-81-Jazz-Singer-Who-Turned-Songs-Into-Stories/stories/201812140084

Silent Night (Performed by Nancy Wilson & Kimiko Itoh) 

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7-Year-Old Migrant Girl Taken Into Border Patrol Custody Dies Of Dehydration, Exhaustion

Random Migrant Family outside a shelter in El Paso,Texas

     A 7-year-old girl from Guatemala died of dehydration and shock after she was taken into Border Patrol custody last week for crossing from Mexico into the United States illegally with her father and a large group of migrants along a remote span of New Mexico desert, U.S. Customs and Border Protection said Thursday.
     The child’s death is likely to intensify scrutiny of detention conditions at Border Patrol stations and CBP facilities that are increasingly overwhelmed by large numbers of families seeking asylum in the United States.
     According to CBP records, the girl and her father were taken into custody about 10 p.m. Dec. 6 south of Lordsburg, N.M., as part of a group of 163 people who approached U.S. agents to turn themselves in.
    More than eight hours later, the child began having seizures at 6:25 a.m., CBP records show. Emergency responders, who arrived soon after, measured her body temperature at 105.7 degrees, and according to a statement from CBP, she “reportedly had not eaten or consumed water for several days.”

...The ACLU blamed “lack of accountability, and a culture of cruelty within CBP” for the girl’s death. “The fact that it took a week for this to come to light shows the need for transparency for CBP. We call for a rigorous investigation into how this tragedy happened and serious reforms to prevent future deaths,” Cynthia Pompa, advocacy manager for the ACLU Border Rights Center, said in a statement. 

~WASHINGTON POST

READ MORE: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/7-year-old-migrant-girl-taken-into-border-patrol-custody-dies-of-dehydration-exhaustion/2018/12/13/8909e356-ff03-11e8-862a-b6a6f3ce8199_story.html?

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Serena Williams Changes Tennis For The Better Again, For Recently Pregnant Women This Time

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     Changes to rules of the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) will make it possible for Serena Williams to wear her famous black catsuit...

     “Leggings and mid-thigh-length compression shorts may be worn with or without a skirt, shorts or dress,” the new regulations read.
     Williams wore the suit in August after returning from maternity leave nine months after giving birth to daughter Alexis Olympia. The outfit served as a compression garment to prevent the champion from getting the blood clots that almost killed her while she had her baby. She also thought the suit was symbolic of the strength of women.
     Bernard Giudicelli, the hatin’ a** president of the French Open, threw a fit and swore he would ban similar clothing from his matches..."

     Giudicelli said at the time. “I believe we have sometimes gone too far. Serena’s outfit this year, for example, would no longer be accepted. You have to respect the game and the place.”

https://blavity.com/serena-williams-can-now-wear-all-the-catsuits-she-wants-after-rule-amendment-from-womens-tennis-association?

Giudicelli was hatin' on Serena because 
he was hatin on BLACK PANTHER because 
he was hatin on black culture

We weren't fooled by the ole french fool.

* * * * * By the way, anybody who thinks France is less racist than the United States should think again. They're just smarter about keeping their ethnoracism hidden. This is why the French make sure they don't take a census that takes into account race and ethnicity. That right -- there's no way to really know for sure how many black, brown, and Muslim people there are in the country. Therefore it's harder to figure out which demographic is poor and/or discriminated against.

And I hear their history books are even more whitewashed than the United States'.

Colorblind racism at it's finest. Don't talk about it (racism)? It'll go away

But somehow, in their colorblind society, they've managed to make 60% of the prisoners never-seen-as-white-Muslim at one point -- despite only being 8 to 10% of the total population.

This is likely why that hate-filled Charlie Hebdo magazine  (that likes to target Muslims and black women) is mistaken for satire there.

Giudicelli's verbal attack on Serena just confirmed what I already knew.

* * * * *

And in more Serena-News.  She became the first black woman to sport corn-rows on Teen Vogue's cover this month.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/serena-williams-makes-history-as-first-woman-to-ever-wear-cornrows-on-teen-vogue-cover_us_5c126b47e4b002a46c14dc3c

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JANET JACKSON TO BE HONORED IN THE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME

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     That’s right, Jackson joins six other performers in the new 2019 class, from an international voting body of over 1,000 artists. The nominated inductees are judged on the length and depth of their career and body of work, style innovation and superiority and their musical influence on other artists.
     Described by the RRHoF as “a pop icon immediately identifiable on a first-name basis,” Jackson has been nominated for the honor three times. In the meantime, she has scooped multiple awards for her work, including six Grammys, a Golden Globe, and a plethora of Billboard Music Awards, American Music Awards and MTV Video Music Awards. Her music catalogue didn’t just include bops for bops’ sake, she explored social issues as well, most notably in Rhythm Nation 1814.
     “[Jackson] explored social issues, themes of empowerment and self-confidence, and influenced generations with her stylized music videos with innovative choreography,” read the website’s inductee page for the pop legend...

https://thegrapevine.theroot.com/janet-jackson-is-made-for-the-rock-roll-hall-of-fame-1831071527

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TRUMP STARTS HEARING JAWS THEME IN HIS SLEEP AS HIS EX LAWYER SENTENCED TO 3 YEARS ON PRISON

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     Michael D. Cohen, a former lawyer for President Trump, was sentenced to three years in prison on Wednesday after denouncing Mr. Trump and explaining that “I felt it was my duty to cover up his dirty deeds.”

    Mr. Cohen gave an emotional apology to the court for his involvement in a hush-money scandal that could threaten the Trump presidency — a scheme to buy the silence of two women who said they had affairs with Mr. Trump to protect his chances before the 2016 election. Mr. Cohen said his blind loyalty to Mr. Trump led him to ignore “my own inner voice and my moral compass.”
     The sentencing in federal court in Manhattan capped a startling fall for Mr. Cohen, 52, who had once hoped to work by Mr. Trump’s side in the White House but ended up a central figure in the inquiry into payments to an adult-film star and a former Playboy model before the 2016 election...

~NY TIMES

Read More: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/12/nyregion/michael-cohen-sentence-trump.html

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CLEMENCY POSSIBLE FOR CYNTOIA BROWN

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     Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam said on Monday that he is carefully considering the clemency request for Cyntoia Brown, who was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison in 2004 for killing a 43-year-old man who had solicited her for sex when she was just 16 years old. The Tennessee Supreme Court ruled last week that Brown must serve 51 years before she’s eligible for parole. 

      Prosecutors said that Brown went with Johnny Mitchell Allen with the intent to rob him, but she and her lawyers insisted that she shot Allen in self-defense because she thought he was going to kill her. She also said she went home with him to have sex for money on the orders of her abusive boyfriend, who beat her and forced her into prostitution. In her appeal, she said that she only took money from the victim’s wallet after he was dead because she was afraid of what would happen if she went back to her boyfriend empty handed...

Read More: https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/cyntoia-brown-clemency-governor-bill-haslam-767677/?

REDress EXHIBIT FOR MISSING AND MURDERED INDIGENOUS WOMEN AND GIRLS

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   Two Grade 12 students are using metal as their medium to raise awareness about missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls.
     Trinity Harry and Joseph Ginter spent more than 300 hours welding a red dress hanging from a tree at R.B. Russell Vocational School.
     "I do it because people don't really know what some girls have to worry about every single day," said 17-year-old Harry. "People missing their relatives, their moms, their sisters, their kids. It's sad and something that shouldn't even be going on.
     Harry and Ginter said the red dress represents MMIWG, a symbol created by Winnipeg artist Jaime Black through her REDress Project.
    The students put their own spin on Black's project, incorporating elements of their culture into the tree's design.
     "We made seven branches, they go together, the seven pieces represent the seven teachings," said Harry. "On the branches we have leaves with the provinces where girls have gone missing."

~CBC.CA 

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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/rb-russell-welding-mmiwg-1.4931544?fbclid=IwAR2Tn643lZereS112zAJzvefWuRh8Qn025nVHYfSe96Fwq6OPhaatiebzpg

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Senegal Opens Museum of Black Civilizations—One of the Largest of Its Kind In the World

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     What began as an idea proposed by Senegal's first president Léopold Sédar Senghor over 50 years ago, has now become a reality as Senegal has officially opened the Museum of Black Civilizations, one of the largest of its kind in the world.     Senegal's current president Macky Sall inaugurated the museum earlier today in Dakar. The design of the building, which contains 14,000 square meters of floor space and a capacity for 18,000 exhibits, was inspired by circular traditional homes native to Southern Senegal, BBC Africa reports. Its size is comparable to the National Museum of African American History in Washington, according to Al Jazeera...

~OkayAfrica.Com

Read More: 
https://www.okayafrica.com/senegal-opens-museum-of-black-civilizations-dakar-largest-in-africa/

AFRICAN AMERICAN RELIGIOUS THOUGHT

LOL

Looks like ain't THAT much changed from dat day ta dis.

 

WARRIORS IN VICTORIAN DRESSES: THE BLACK SUFFRAGETTES

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Many African American women were highly active in the women's suffrage movement.

In the antebellum period, like Anglo women, many black women became active abolitionists and supporters of women’s rights. Sojourner Truth, a former slave, became famous as both an abolitionist and an advocate of woman suffrage. In 1851, [before slavery was over for most blacks,] she made her famous speech, “Ain’t I A Woman,” at a convention in Akron, Ohio. 

Alfre Woodard performs Truth's Speech Here


Other black women suffragists from this time period include Margaretta Forten, Harriet Forten Purvis, Ida B Wells, Mary Church Terrell, Nannie Helen Burroughs and Mary Ann Shadd Cary, Fannie Barrier Williams, Anna Julia Cooper


Read Morehttps://www.nwhm.org/online-exhibits/rightsforwomen/AfricanAmericanwomen.html

HOW TO RAISE A FEMINIST

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A few years ago, Chimamanda Adichie received a message from a childhood friend asking for advice: She wanted to know how to raise her newborn daughter to be a feminist.

For Adichie — a best-selling author who has also made a name for herself as a leading feminist voice — the question was a bit daunting, but she wrote a long letter back to her friend.

Clockwise to the Center: Beverly Bond, Chimamanda Adichie, Michelle Obama, Amandla Stenberg and Mommy, Beyonce and daughter Shonda and daughter, Viola and daughter, Barack and daughters, Kerry Washington carrying unborn child.

Now, that letter has been published as a book. It's called Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions, and it talks about everything from how to choose toys to teaching self-reliance to challenging traditional gender roles.

Adichie says writing the letter was useful for her, too. "Yes, I wrote it for my friend, but I think to a large extent it was also my way of mapping out my own thinking. Because I have talked a lot about these things and I care very much about them and I get very passionate ... but I realized I didn't actually have a concrete map of the particular, specific things that I think will help if we do them differently.

SOURCE: NPR 

* * * * * 

[In the book are] fifteen invaluable suggestions–compelling, direct, wryly funny, and perceptive–for how to empower a daughter to become a strong, independent woman. From encouraging her to choose a helicopter, and not only a doll, as a toy if she so desires; having open conversations with her about clothes, makeup, and sexuality; debunking the myth that women are somehow biologically arranged to be in the kitchen making dinner, and that men can “allow” women to have full careers, Dear Ijeawele goes right to the heart of sexual politics in the twenty-first century. It will start a new and urgently needed conversation about what it really means to be a woman today.

SOURCE: Penguin / Random House

Interview Highlights
On "feminism-lite" and why it's harmful...

Read More, Hear More, See More.... at the interview
http://www.npr.org/2017/03/03/518160055/how-do-you-raise-a-feminist-daughter-chimamanda-adichie-has-15-suggestions?

BARACK OBAMA on being A FEMINIST FATHER
http://thankherforsurviving.blogspot.com/2016/08/feminist-in-chief-barack-obama-on-being.html

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apathy by warsan shire

So what are you going to say at my funeral 
now that you've killed me?

* * * * *
Here lies the body of the love of my life 
whose heart I broke
Without a gun to my head
Here lies the mother of my children, 
both living and dead
Rest in peace my true love who I took for granted
The most bomb pussy 
who because of me sleep evaded

Her shroud 

is 
Loneliness

Her god 
was 
Listening

Her heaven 
will be 
a love without betrayal

Ashes to ashes
Dust to sidechicks

~Warsan Shire

~Performed by Beyonce, 

 LEMONADE 2016

22 DOCUMENTARIES ON BLACK WOMEN

SOURCE: SHADOWANDACT.COM

1 — “Free Angela & All Political Prisoners” (2013)

2 — “Chisholm ’72: Unbought and Unbossed” (2004)

3 — “Audre Lorde – The Berlin Years 1984 to 1992” (2012)

4 — “Taking Root: The Vision of Wangari Maathai” (2008)

5 — “Beah: A Black Woman Speaks” (2003)

6 — “Zora Neale Hurston: Jump at the Sun” (2008)

7 — “Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth” (2013)

8 — “Moms Mabley: I Got Somethin’ to Tell You” (2013)

9 — “Queen Nanny: Legendary Maroon Chieftainess” (2015)

10 — “Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise” (2016)

11 — “T-Rex” (2016)

12 — “A Ballerina’s Tale” (2015)

A feature documentary on African American ballerina Misty Copeland that examines her prodigious rise, her potentially career ending injury alongside themes of race and body image in the elite ballet world.

13 — “Iron Ladies of Liberia” (2007)

14 — “The Real Shirley Bassey” (2001)

15 — “Life’s Essentials with Ruby Dee” (2014)

See descriptions of each one here: 
http://shadowandact.com/2017/03/28/15-documentaries-about-black-women-to-watch-as-womens-history-month-comes-to-an-end/

MORE DOCUMENATARIES

16-  Nina Simone:  "What Happened, Miss Simone?"  (Netflix)

I had already put the "Strong Black Woman" stereotype away as far as being something I aspired to. But this really put the nails in Strong Black Woman's coffin for me. I highly recommend watching this one.

17-  Ruby McCollum: "You Belong To Me"  (Amazon Prime)

Though this documentary is far from perfect. I might buy it to add to my black history collection.  

McCollum's story takes place during a period not talked about too much in Black History books except for the Black Renaissance. But it would have been better if black women had total control of producing it. I stopped and started it a few times to make sure I had a full picture of what was happening during the police investigation.  However, you'll get the full picture of what happened after this black woman killed a white doctor in a southern town in the 1950s if you know your black history and can read between the lines. You'll also have a better understanding of what black women were/are going through between the end of slavery to the end of The Civil Rights Movement and beyond.

McCollum's son speaks about his mother, in very sexist terms, at the very end of the documentary. But his attempt to defend (the white doctor or his father or men in general)  doesn't take away from the story that's told.  (Last seen on Amazon Prime)

18- Fannie Lou Hamer - "This Little Light Of Mine" (???)

(I've seen a very short documentary on Hamer. I'm pretty sure this is not it. It looks like it's been praised quite a bit and is being sold to schools. If your kid says they're showing it at their school, make sure you go "visit" that day because it's expensive if it's not on Netflix or Hulu.)

19-  "All Jokes Aside: Black Women In Comedy"  (New From VH1)

This features a host of talented ladies—including Martin’s Tichina Arnold and Insecure‘s Yvonne Orji—discussing how they deal with racism, sexism and the lack of representation in the industry. - 
http://people.com/tv/black-women-in-comedy-documentary-vh1/

20- "Venus and Serena"  (NETFLIX)

"Ever since Venus and Serena Williams started playing in tennis tournaments, they've provoked strong reactions - from awe and admiration to suspicion and resentment. They've been winning championships for over a decade, pushing the limits of longevity in such a demanding sport. How long can they last? In Venus & Serena, we gain unprecedented access into their lives during the most intimidating year of their career. Over the course of 2011, Venus grappled with an energy-sapping autoimmune disease while Serena battled back from a life-threatening pulmonary embolism. Neither Venus nor Serena let their adversities hold them back. They drew their greatest strength from each other."  

  http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2376024/plotsummary?ref_=tt_ov_pl

21.  The Rape Of Recy Taylor (DVD)

Mrs. Recy Taylor was gang raped by six white boys in 1944 Alabama. Unbroken, she spoke up and fought for justice with help from Rosa Parks and legions of women.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6116682/

22. "Being Serena"  (HBO)

     Being Serena is a documentary series chronicling tennis icon Serena Williams at a pivotal moment in her personal and professional life.
     Produced by HBO Sports and IMG’s Original Content group, Being Serena provides viewers unprecedented access to Williams during her pregnancy, new motherhood and marriage, while documenting her journey back to supremacy on the court. The intimate first-person show delves into her landmark career, family life and expanding role as a businesswoman and investor in the worlds of tech, fashion, fitness and philanthropy.
     Serena Williams, 36, is one of the most dominant forces tennis has ever seen, with 39 Grand Slam titles, four Olympic Gold Medals and the most women’s singles match victories in Grand Slam history. Her supremacy on the court earned her Sports Illustrated’s Sportsperson of the Year honors in 2015 and made her a four-time winner of the Associated Press Female Athlete of the Year, first in 2002 and most recently in 2015...

https://www.hbo.com/content/hboweb/en/being-serena/about.html

DOCUMENTARIES ARE CHEAP AND EASY HISTORY

find a one to watch this year

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Black Tesla Employees Band Together To Expose Alleged Culture Of Racism

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     Approximately two dozen Black former and current Tesla employees have spoken out about the racism and discrimination they endured at the car company's factory in Fremont, California.
     A damning New York Times report alleged Telsa ignored complaints of racism when brought to the attention of executives. Workers allegedly endured racial harassment in the form of bullying, slurs and taunting. Court documents, interviews and other testimonies describe a culture of racism which prevented Black workers from moving up the corporate ladder.

     Former employee Owen Diaz, 50, told The Times he saw multiple swastikas drawn on the bathroom walls during his time at the factory. He worked at the factory as a contractor for 11 months before leaving in 2016.
     In one instance, Diaz said fellow workers taunted and called him a racist slur. “You hear, ‘Hey, boy, come here,’ ‘N-i-g-g-e-r,’ you know, all this,” said Diaz. A few hours passed before he discovered a racist drawing on a bale of cardboard boxes.
     He texted his manager informing him about the racist effigy he saw. Diaz learned that a supervisor drew the figure as a joke. This revelation was the last straw; he quit shortly after...

~Blavity.com 

https://blavity.com/black-tesla-employees-expose-companys-alleged-culture-of-racism?

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LENA WAITHE TELLS THE TRUTH AND SAMES THE DEVIL FOR BLACK WOMEN WRITERS

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Lena Waithe [Netflix "Master Of None" Writer] and a host of Black women writers in Hollywood gathered to discuss the work they do in supporting each other in an industry that's not built for their success. The numbers of Black women in television writing are so low you can't find statistics. In an op-ed article for The Guardian, Stefani Robinson (an Emmy-nominated writer for her work on "Atlanta"), lamented that only 4.8% of TV writers are Black.  The problem is systemic. She wrote:

Black showrunners are hiring black writers, sure. But what about white showrunners (the majority of showrunners)? Why aren’t they hiring minorities to write on their shows? I don’t know. Something that I hear a lot from white writers is that they like to “write what they know”. In my experience, this also means “I’m white so I only know and want to write white things. I don’t want to write about minorities because I won’t do them justice...

~FOR HARRIET 

https://theculture.forharriet.com/2018/12/lena-waithe-brings-together-black-women.html?

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A BRIEF HISTORY OF HAIR RELAXERS

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Madam C J Walker is probably the original Naturalista.

Believe it or not, she did not invent the relaxer. G.A. Morgan did. Actually he and a woman named Annie Malone both invented hair relaxers for black women.* 

 
MADAM C J WALKER
Some of us might turn up our noses at some of of Walker's ingredients these days--petrolatum, beeswax, copper sulfate, precipitated sulfur, coconut oil and violet extract. 

CREAMY CRACK (def): 

Another word for chemical relaxers (perms). 

must be retouched every 6 to 8 weeks,

and become reliant on them, like a crackhead on crack.

But she didn't sell chemical straighteners for hair. She did not invent the creamy crack. She didn't even invent the first hot comb. She only modified the french hot comb for black women.  

Sarah Breedlove, who would later marry and become Mrs. Charles Joseph  Walker, was into healing the scalp and healthy hair growth.

G.A. Morgan

Morgan, famous on black websites everywhere for inventing the gas mask and the traffic light, is one of the people who deserves some or most of the credit for inventing creamy crack, otherwise known as hair relaxer

In 1909, Morgan was working with sewing machines in his newly opened tailoring shop—a business he had opened with wife Mary, who had experience as a seamstress—when he encountered woolen fabric that had been scorched by a sewing-machine needle. It was a common problem at the time, since sewing-machine needles ran at such high speeds. In hopes of alleviating the problem, Morgan experimented with a chemical solution in an effort to reduce friction created by the needle, and subsequently noticed that the hairs of the cloth were straighter.

After trying his solution to good effect on a neighboring dog's fur, Morgan finally tested the concoction on himself. When that worked, he quickly established the G.A. Morgan Hair Refining Company and sold the cream to African Americans. The company was incredibly successful, bringing Morgan financial security and allowing him to pursue other interests.

Good Thing Mr. Morgan doesn't need the money from hair straightening how. Relaxer sales reportedly dropped 26% in 2014. Black women are still moving toward healthier, more natural hair styles.

http://blackamericaweb.com/2014/09/11/creamy-crack-withdrawal-hair-relaxer-sales-drop-26/

ANNIE TURNBO MALONE

MALONE STARTED BY FOCUSING ON HEALTHY HAIR


BUT WITH THE HELP OF AN AUNT SHE WOULD  CREATE CHEMICAL STRAIGHTENERS FOR BLACK HAIR

While experimenting with hair and different hair care products, she developed and manufactured her own line of non-damaging hair straighteners, special oils, and hair-stimulant products for African-American women.[4] She named her new product “Wonderful Hair Grower”[5] To promote her new product, Turnbo sold the Wonderful Hair Grower in bottles from door-to-door.[5] She began to revolutionize hair care methods for all African Americans....

One of her selling agents, Sarah Breedlove (who became known as Madam C. J. Walker when she set up her own business), encouraged Turnbo to copyright her products under the name "Poro" because of what she called fraudulent imitations and to discourage counterfeit versions.

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_Malone

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WISDOM FROM JANELLE MONAE ON HER BIRTHDAY

“There was a lot of confusion and nonsense where I grew up, so I reacted by creating my own little world. [...] I began to see how music could change lives, and I began to dream about a world where every day was like anime and Broadway, where music fell from the sky and anything could happen.” 

“Embrace what makes you unique, even if it makes others uncomfortable. i didn't have to become perfect because I've learned throughout my journey that perfection is the enemy of greatness.” 

“Even if it makes others uncomfortable, I will love who I am.” 

“Bring wings to the weak and bring grace to the strong
May all evil stumble as it flies in the world
All the tribes comes and the mighty will crumble
We must brave this night and have faith in love”