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The Learning Curve: Emmy Winner A’Lelia Bundles on Madam C.J. Walker, First U.S. Self-Made Female Millionaire

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Politics, News

4.4652 Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2026

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of The Learning Curve, we celebrate Black History Month as co-hosts U-Ark Prof. Albert Cheng and Alisha Searcy of the Center for Strong Public Schools speak with A’Lelia Bundles, an accomplished journalist, television producer, and biographer of Madam C. J. Walker, about the life, legacy, and enduring significance of her remarkable great-great-grandmother. […]

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0:00.0

Well, hello and welcome to the Learning Curb podcast.

0:23.1

I'm your co-host, Alicia Thomas Sersi, and happy to be joined by our other co-host, Dr. Albert Chang.

0:29.4

How are you, Albert?

0:30.6

Hey, doing well.

0:32.4

The snow's all gone down here.

0:34.1

I don't know about in Atlanta, but life is good.

0:37.0

Life is back. We got some spring weather peeking its head here, but back to winter in a little bit here. I don't know about in Atlanta, but life is good, life is back.

0:37.6

We got some spring weather peeking its head here, but back to winter in a little bit here.

0:41.3

I know.

0:42.1

I never thought I would be praying for 50-degree weather, but I am because last week we got

0:48.7

into the low teams and parts of Georgia, it was at zero.

0:53.2

So I'm not a winter girl, so I'm ready for this thing to be over.

0:58.2

But it's all good.

0:59.3

There's a lot going on in the world.

1:01.4

There is, yes.

1:02.7

I love when we get to gather and talk about education and history,

1:06.7

and of course it is February, so it's Black History Month,

1:09.9

so excited about more guests that we have coming on and excited about today's guests as well.

1:15.2

But before we get to guess, we've got to talk about the stories of the week.

1:19.5

Yeah.

1:20.2

So what do you have?

1:21.8

Well, you know, I found one, speaking of history, that coincidentally enough, is entitled, Looking Back. What are we looking back to

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