Netflix’s Self Made, inspired by the life of Madam C.J. Walker, tells the incredible story of how she built a haircare empire and became America’s first female self-made millionaire.

Black women are working together to honor the legacy of Madam C.J. Walker in the limited Netflix series, Self Made: Inspired by the Life of Madam C.J. Walker.

Madam. C.J. Walker, the first female self-made millionaire in the U.S., is the latest figure to be honored with her own Barbie doll in Mattel's Inspiring Women line.

Madam C.J. Walker was America’s first black woman to be a self-made millionaire. She created hair care products for black women. In the 1890s, a scalp ailment caused Walker to lose most of her hair.

Madam C.J. Walker is widely considered the first self-made female millionaire in the United States. Her hair care products were born out of necessity after she started suffered from an illness ...

Madam. C.J. Walker, the first self-made female millionaire in the U.S., is the next female role model to be honored in Barbie's line of Inspiring Women dolls.

Madam C.J. Walker's great-great-granddaughter, author A’Lelia Bundles, will speak at the Kool Family Community Center at 6 p.m. Feb. 28.

Photos courtesy of Mattel Legendary Westchesterite Madam C.J. Walker becomes a Barbie in Mattel’s new Inspiring Women line. Madam C.J. Walker was the first female self-made millionaire in the country ...