birth_date: 0001-06-07 00:00:00
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name: A'Lelia Perry Bundles
about: A’Lelia Bundles is the author of four books about her entrepreneurial great-great-grandmother, including On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C.J. Walker, the biography that inspired “Self Made,” the four-part Netflix series starring Octavia Spencer. The 2020 edition of this New York Times Notable Book is renamed Self Made. She is at work on The Joy Goddess of Harlem: A’Lelia Walker and the Harlem Renaissance, about her great-grandmother whose parties and arts patronage helped define the era. A former network television news executive and producer at ABC News and NBC News, she is a vice chairman of Columbia University’s Board of Trustees, chair emerita of the National Archives Foundation board and on the advisory boards of the Sch A’Lelia Bundles is the author of four books about her entrepreneurial great-great-grandmother, including On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C.J. Walker, the biography that inspired “Self Made,” the four-part Netflix series starring Octavia Spencer. The 2020 edition of this New York Times Notable Book is renamed Self Made. She is at work on The Joy Goddess of Harlem: A’Lelia Walker and the Harlem Renaissance, about her great-grandmother whose parties and arts patronage helped define the era. A former network television news executive and producer at ABC News and NBC News, she is a vice chairman of Columbia University’s Board of Trustees, chair emerita of the National Archives Foundation board and on the advisory boards of the Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America at Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute and the March on Washington Film Festival. ...more