![]() The town’s first and only emporium for beauty products for women of color, JBee represents the culmination of a longtime dream for Butcher, a Harlem native who came to New Paltz as a SUNY student in 1984. She’s an inspiration to me,” says Janice Butcher, who has just opened JBee Beauty Supply in New Paltz. ![]() DuBois, became a highly respected philanthropist, trained thousands of women to become independent entrepreneurs and hosted conferences of the Black intelligentsia of the early 20 th century in her Italianate mansion. She hobnobbed with the likes of Langston Hughes, Booker T. ![]() Orphaned at age 7 and unschooled, Madame Walker went from working as a domestic servant in childhood to extraordinary success and influence by formulating, manufacturing and marketing skin- and hair-care products specifically for African American women. One of the legendary historic houses here in the Hudson Valley is Villa Lewaro in Irvington, built by America’s first female self-made millionaire, Madam C. ![]()
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