UO Today: A'Lelia Bundles, author of "On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C.J. Walker"

A’Lelia Bundles is the author of "On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C.J. Walker," a book about her great-great-grandmother who was a successful entrepreneur in the early 20th century. Her nonfiction book is the inspiration for Self Made, a fictional Netflix series starring Octavia Spencer. She will give a talk titled “Your First Duty Is to Humanity: Echoes of Derrick Bell in Madam C.J. Walker’s Activism and Entrepreneurship” as the UO Law School’s Derrick Bell Lecturer on February 9, 2022.