“You know the AME Church has a history of empowering black people and having an international outlook. So it was the women of the church who began to give Sarah Breedlove an image of herself as something other than an illiterate washerwoman, and she wanted to make her life better, and her daughter's life better.”

American journalist, news producer and author

A'Lelia Bundles is an American journalist, news producer, and author. She is known for her 2001 biography of her great-great-grandmother, Madam C. J. Walker. Her work centers on reporting, producing news, and writing about history and public life. She is especially recognized for helping bring Madam C. J. Walker’s story to a wider audience through biography.