How Black hair care grew Black power

This is Planet Money from NPR. There's this woman on TikTok who is so incredibly compelling. The next dress is from Zonda Rhodes, and I do have an iconic photo of my grandmother wearing it. So let me show you. Her name is Olivia Joan Galley. Like, so beautiful. She's a young black photographer. In all of these posts, Olivia Joan is trying on pieces from a heap of incredibly fancy vintage clothing on a couch. The beadwork is just impeccable. It all belonged to her grandmother. This dress weighs, like, 50 pounds. It is very heavy. There are shoes that cost more than some people's rent and have never even been worn. And then there are some very worn things. This used to be my grandmother's favorite top. It even has, like, a bunch of stains on it from when she spilled. And it still smells like her too, and she was my best friend and so, yeah, I'm running out of time. Okay. Bye. The thing that's so striking about Olivia Jones' post is that these are couture dresses. So her grandmother, a black woman, was wearing custom Chanel, Givenchy Yves Saint Laurent. This is for the wealthiest of the wealthy. Some of the same designers who dressed Audrey Hepburn, Jackie Kennedy, and princess Diana, dressing this black woman from the South Side Of Chicago. We called up Olivia Joan, and she told us that is why she's been posting these outfits of her grandmothers. You really did not see black men and women able to even afford designer pieces, but to see that my grandmother had such a deep rooted archival collection is the reason why I I really and kept talking about it. Olivia Jones says it even took her a long time to clock her grandparents' importance. Like, I remember my grandmother and I were watching The Crown, and she was like, oh, Oh, I was friends with the Queen's sister. And then I was just I was just like, oh, tell us, what what did you say? Who was your grandmother? Yeah. My grandmother is Joan Betty Henderson Johnson. Joan Johnson. And her grandfather? Who am I? I'm George E. Johnson. That's all. That most certainly is not all. George E. Johnson was Joan's husband, but he was also the maker of Afro Sheen, the most iconic black hair product of the twentieth century. And don't forget Afro Sheen's conditioner and hairdress, the best for conditioning and highlighting your hair. And what do you want? Nothing I can't get from Afro Sheen. Afro Sheen's blowout kit and conditioner and hairdress. Johnson's Afro Sheen, the largest selling products in the natural world. It's hard to overstate how Central Afro Sheen was the black culture and the rise of black business. And in a way, the story of the Johnsons company is how they melded those two. Because while Olivia Jones posts her TikToks so people will understand wealthy black entrepreneurs like her grandparents existed, for …