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A'Lelia Walker's Harlem Renaissance Beauty and Style

Tuesday, March 23
2:00 – 3: 15 PM (EST)
A'Lelia Walker's Harlem Renaissance Beauty and Style
A talk with A’Lelia Bundles. With vintage photos, Bundles focuses on her great-grandmother A’Lelia Walker’s Dark Tower salon and her circle of creative friends.

Author and journalist A’Lelia Bundles writes biographies about the amazing women in her family: entrepreneur Madam C. J. Walker and Harlem Renaissance icon A’Lelia Walker. Bundles is the author of On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C.J. Walker, the 2001 New York Times Notable Book about her entrepreneurial great-great-grandmother and the inspiration for Self Made, the fictional Netflix series starring Octavia Spencer. She is at work on her fifth book, The Joy Goddess of Harlem: A’Lelia Walker and the Harlem Renaissance, about her great-grandmother whose parties, arts patronage and travels helped define the era.

A former network television news executive and producer at ABC News and NBC News, Ms. Bundles is a vice chairman of Columbia University’s Board of Trustees and chair emerita of the board of the National Archives Foundation.

She 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.

Presented by the Center for Black Visual Culture (CBVC)/Institute of African American Affairs (IAAA) at New York University; Co-sponsored by , 370J Project and Africana Studies/Department of Social, Cultural Analysis-NYU, Dept. of Photography & Imaging-NYU Tisch School of the Arts

For more of our Spring 2021 programs please visit:
https://nyuiaaa.org/event-items/2021-spring-calendar/

Mar 23, 2021 02:00 PM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)