Segment: “Wives, Mothers and Businesswomen!”
Original Air Date: September 23, 2007, VoiceAmerica Business Radio Network

Madame C.J. Walker legacy, A’Lelia Bundles, talks about the female progression in the business world from the time of Madame CJ Walker to present – and gives solid advice to aspiring women business owners and entrepreneurs. Ladies – We’re not just baking cookies anymore!

About A’lelia Bundles

A’Lelia Bundles–author, journalist and former network television news executive—currently is at work on a biography of her great-grandmother and namesake, A’Lelia Walker, who was a central figure of the Harlem Renaissance.

Ms. Bundles’s critically-acclaimed, best-selling biography, ON HER OWN GROUND: The Life and Times of Madam C. J. Walker –the first truly comprehensive biography of her great-great-grandmother—was named a 2002 Borders Books-Hurston/Wright Legacy Award finalist, a 2001 New York Times Notable Book, a 2001 Washington Post Best Biography, the 2001 Letitia Woods Brown Book Prize winner by the Association of Black Women Historians for the best book on black women’s history and a 2002 Honor Book by the Black Caucus of the American Library Association. ON HER OWN GROUND, the only accurate account of Walker ’s life, is based on nearly three decades of Ms. Bundles’s meticulous research in the libraries, historical societies, courthouses and private homes of more than a dozen U. S. cities. Her young adult biography, MADAM C. J. WALKER: ENTREPRENEUR [Chelsea House 1991] received an American Book Award.

Ms. Bundles graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College and Radcliffe College and received a masters degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. She is a member of the Alpha Iota Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa at Harvard College and received an honorary doctorate from Indiana University in May 2003. She collects kaleidoscopes and African American memorabilia and lives in Washington , DC .

For more information about Alelia Bundles, visit www.madamcjwalker.com