CONNECTING THE BLACK DOTS...NEWS FROM BOBSA FEB-MAR 2013

Is February the Only Time to Celebrate?

Obviously, we want to recognize the accom-

plishments of the many, many great African Americans who had made

contributions, sacrifices and even died for us. However, let us not

forget that we do not have to travel back in time to 1650, 1865, or

even 1975 to reflect on why we should celebrate our greatness as a

people, for Black History happens each and everyday of the year. Are

we not Black 365 days a year rather than a mere 28 days in February?

God made us in his likeness and I believe that makes you, me, and

everyone very special. This is the lesson we need to pass on to our

younger generations, who seemingly abhor and have a disdain for who

they are. Perhaps if they learned to better love themselves, they will

come to embrace their Blackness and celebrate Black History each

day of the year in order to appreciate life to its fullest.

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The New Annie Malone Historical Society Launches New WebsiteThe Annie Malone Historical Society (AMHS), which was organized in January 2013, is a non- profit corporation whose mission is to educate the Black community about the impact Annie Malone had on the Black Hair industry in the U.S. and around the world. As the founder of the Black hair industry, Annie Malone’s accomplishments and philanthrop-ic contributions uplifted communities by providing training and jobs for Afro-Americans and other people of color who otherwise would have been subjugated to fewer or lesser opportunities. Click on www.anniemalonehistoricalsociety.org to go to the website to learn about Annie Malone and Poro College and to make donations that will enable us to further share her history while continuing to serve in our communities as she did. Malone’s history should motivate everyone, especially young people, to a life of servitude. When we serve and uplift our own communities, everyone will benefit with a better life.

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A New Store Opening in January 2013Celebrity Beauty Boutique LLC celebrated its grand opening in January, 2013. The owner is Joyce Henderson and she has a beautiful and colorful display of products and servic-es as shown in the picture below. Stop in and visit Celebrity Beauty Boutique LLC at 3818 Illinois Road, Fort Wayne, IN 46804.

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Money, Hair Care Mfg and the Moment in .....America by Cyrus Jackson I have been in the hair care industry for nearly thirty years now and I have been a manufacturer of quality hair care products for just as long. I am proud to say that I run a small privately owned firm that does a lion’s share of business nationally and abroad. This pride comes from the fact that I know how vital the small business sector is to the American economy. We have witnessed at the OTC class of trade level that the billion dollar corporations can often have the brawn of capital but not the bravado it often takes to capture the unique niche of the ethnic hair category. Just take a stroll down the ethnic hair care section of your local retail giant. They have made great strides in the areas of ethnic hair care but one point is clear. The ethnic hair care consumer will not be exclusively flocking to

Mr. Cyrus JacksonPresident of

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these stores to throw packages of virgin remy or bonding glue in with their fabric softener and dog food just yet. The small businesses of the United States are in a good place, particularly in the 30 billion dollar hair care industry. It is im-portant for us to one; realize our contribution to the backbone of the U.S. economy and two; harness this contribution to maximize our profit potential.

In May 2012, I had the distinct pleasure of meeting President Barack Obama at an event in Atlanta. I am not a man to be star struck but more than the opportu-nity to meet the President of the United States I was extremely elated to hear about the current administration’s manufacturing ini-tiatives. According to the US News-wire in late 2012, our government has launched a multimillion dollar

initiative to strengthen advanced manufacturing clusters across the nation. Why is this important to the hair care industry? Small businesses are what drive the U.S. economy. Current economic statistics show a rise in ethnic communities toward minority business ownership. This is particularly exciting given the re-election of President Barack Obama. It makes one step back and consider the growth potential of the OTC store and grassroots health and beauty class of trade. What is the ethnic hair care industry but the Oregon Trail of health and beauty, a collage of settlers that started concepts, products and businesses from the dirt floor up and built a nation? My frontier was even-tually called “mango nation” as a play on my very successful product line, Jamaican Mango & Lime for Locs & Twists. In any case, the ethnic hair care sector contains pioneers, independent thinkers, innovators and above all, those that truly changed the face of hair care. According to the Secretary of Labor under the Obama Administration from 2009-2013, Hilda L. Solis, “The manufacturing industry is a vital source of middle class jobs.” Current statistics from the Department of Labor show that manufacturing accounts for 70 percent of private sector employ-ment. Manufacturers like myself employ U.S.

workers. Small mom and pop stores employ local workers. They open stores in communities that need the economic boost. We make products and retail them to meet the hair care needs of those that have been ignored and underserviced. A good example is the growth of natural hair care. The more employment flourishes, the more consum-ers will visit the stores again and the life cycle of the economy comes full circle. As you all know, this is a subject that is near and dear to my heart. I have been manufacturing products for natural hair care before the category was even a concept. The OTC class of trade was the first to embrace these concepts and make these products acces-sible. The manufacturer and the OTC Store have not only been a tag team and champion of ethnic natural hair care, we have grown the sector into the billion dollar establishment it is today. If that is not powerful, I do not know what else is. I am truly happy to see natural hair care being embraced by chain accounts and major corpora-tions. It does my heart good to know the com-munity that I have designed products for and championed for have more accessibility to products and a wider variety of goods and services. Most important, I cannot help to think of how it all grew into the industry that thrives today for us all. It is an industry that a private manufacturer of natural hair care products just outside of Atlanta helped to build. It is an industry that OTC stores across the nation forged. As a part of the driving force for the U.S. economy, the marriage of manufacturer and OTC should not stop here. Do not just stop at retailing the brands. Look into private labeling quality products that your loyal customers trust. Continue to support not just products but new innovative concepts of manufacturers within the private sector. If we keep the life blood relationship of manufacturer, dis-tributor and OTC alive with new concepts, quality products and services that only we can provide, we are helping to drive the economy and seize yet another opportunity to harness the next money making moments in hair care together. WRITTEN BY: CYRUS JACKSON Visit website: http://professionalproductsunlimit-edinc.com/index.html

Not even her poor and difficult beginnings sty-mied Madame Walker’s road to greatness; born December 23, 1867, roughly two years after the al-leged emancipation of her race, she was an orphan at seven, a wife at fourteen, a mother at seventeen and a widow at twenty. The woman, who would come to be “known as the first self-made, female millionaire, and the greatest benefactress of her race,” was born the daughter of Owen and Minerva Breedlove, poor ex-slaves, living on a cotton farm in Louisiana. They named their special little girl Sarah Breedlove. A washerwoman by trade, at the age of thirty-three, in 1900, Sarah began selling a product door-to-door, which she had formulated to remedy her own hair loss. She pinpointed the root of her hair prob-lems, which was the scalp, and created hair care products, and a beauty regimen for hair growth and maintenance that focused on the need for a clean and healthy scalp, scalp protection and scalp stimulation for maximum hair growth. Her first prod-uct was called Madame C. J. Walker’s Wonderful Hair Grower and she boldly and proudly used her own likeness on her jars and her own “before and after” pictures to demonstrate her products’ effec-tiveness. Per Madame’s own words, she “abhorred the impression held by some” that she claimed to straighten hair. She emphatically stated “I GROW HAIR” and that “There would be no HAIR GROW-ING business today had I not started it.” She de-scribed her concept and method of hair growth as BEAUTY CULTURE because she compared growing hair to growing and cultivating garden plants. Black Women from all over the country began writing letters to Madame Walker attesting to the benefits of her products. Despite reports to the contrary, Madame C.J Walker did not invent the pressing comb nor did sis she manufacture any hair relaxers.

Vivian Randolph, President of Madame

C.J Walker Companyh

The Legend Lives! Madame C.JWalker.

Madame Walker moved her ever-expanding “Special Correspondence Course” business, founded on her System of Beauty Culture, to Indianapolis, Indiana on February 19, 1910. .” In less than two years after moving to Indianapolis, on Septem-ber 2, 1911, Madame C.J. Walker Petitioned the Indiana Secretary of State to become incorporated and on Septem-ber 19th, 1911-exactly one year and seven months since her arrival in Indianapolis- the Madame C.J. Walker Manu-facturing Company of Indiana Incorporated was established, Madame Walker naming herself President and sole owner of all 1000 shares of stock. Seventy-four years after the Incorporation of the Madame Walker Company, in 1985, the 1000 shares of capital stock of Madame’s corporation were sold to a man named Raymond L. Randolph, making him the first person since Madame Walker herself to own all 1000 shares of stock in the Madame Walker Company. In honor of Madame C.J. Walker, Mr. Randolph placed Madame Walker’s image back on the jars of all her original hair care products with the words “since 1911” placed underneath it.

After Mr. Randolph’s passing, his daughter, Vivian (President) and his Viv-ian Randolph, Pres. wife Joyce (Secretary) along with other Randolph fam-ily members worked diligently to keep the legacy and history of the famed Walker Company alive. Doing business today as Madame C.J. Walker En-terprises, Inc., the Randolphs continue to manufacture and sell Madame Walker’s original quality products: Glossine, Temple Salve, Hair & Scalp Preparation, Scalp Ointment and Brilliantine. Two crèmes, Conditioning Cream Hairdress and Vitamin E Supergrow were later added to the MCJW hair care line. Answering the demands of the buying public, an all-natural Criteria Vegetable Shampoo, Moisturizing Conditioner, and the Hapi Locs Twist and Loc crème were also developed. Madame Walker’s full line of hair care products are great for stimulating and healing the scalp, moistur-izing, and softening chemically treated or natural hair, encouraging growth for healthy long hair and imparting shine and luster to dry dull hair. Ensuring that the self-help legacy of this remarkable woman never dies, the Madame Walker Agent program has been reinstituted and is the main method by which her products are distributed today. On September 24th, 2011, Madame C.J. Walker Enterprises sponsored a Centennial Celebra-tory Walk called “Tracing the Footsteps of a Legacy.” This event marked the 100th year since Madame C.J. Walker’s original incorporation of her manufacturing company which was the key pivotal point in her entrepre-neurial legacy. The Madame C.J. Walker Business Family-which includes the Madame Walker Agents- will continue to keep Madame Walker’s Spirit alive and well by ensuring that her labor of love -her manufacturing busi-ness- continues operating according to the entrepreneurial blueprint she left behind and which is detailed in the historical documents of the com-pany. Sarah Breedlove, you are indeed one in a Million!visit the website@http://www.madamewalker.net/

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