*EVENING* Women's History Month: A'Lelia Bundles: The Joy Goddess (A’Lelia Walker)
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Tuesday March 11, 2025 |
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A’Lelia Bundles will share the story of her great-grandmother, A’Lelia Walker, and discuss her vibrant, deeply researched biography. Dubbed the “joy goddess of Harlem’s 1920s” by poet Langston Hughes, A’Lelia Walker was the daughter of millionaire entrepreneur Madam C.J. Walker who hosted legendary parties and the Dark Tower salon that helped define the Harlem Renaissance. After inheriting her mother’s hair care enterprise, A’Lelia would become America’s first high-profile Black heiress and a prominent patron of the arts. “Joy Goddess” takes readers inside her three New York homes—a mansion, a townhouse, and a pied-a-terre—where she entertained Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Paul Robeson, Florence Mills, James Weldon Johnson, Carl Van Vechten, W.E.B. DuBois, and other cultural, social, and intellectual luminaries of the Roaring Twenties. In her great-grandmother’s biography, Bundles has created a meticulous, nuanced portrait of a charismatic woman struggling to define herself as a wife, mother, and businesswoman outside her famous mother’s sphere. In “Joy Goddess,” A’Lelia’s radiant personality and impresario instincts—at the center of a vast, artistic social world where she flourished as a fashion trendsetter and international traveler—are brought to vivid and unforgettable life. EVENT DETAILS:
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