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Since before the first Black History Month, which was originally introduced as “Negro History Week” in February 1926, Black women have been making beauty history. Annie Turnbo Malone founded the cosmetics school Poro College in 1917 to teach Black haircare; Madame C.J. Walker (who attended Poro and opened the hair school Lelia College) formulated
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