From the Past to the Present, black women have been running their businesses for years.
No other than Madame CJ Walker and Ms. Pinky Cole, the women that set the pathways for Women like us:” Women Entrepreneurship Network United.” and African American Women all over the world. Every day we CAN because of our past and our present. We learned that the road for entrepreneur black businesswomen was and is not easy. To this day, it is still not easy, but because of them, we know our dreams can become reality. We must believe that a great deal of dedication, optimism, hard work, sleepless nights can lead to our accomplishing our goals and dreams.
Can you believe that it has been 151 years between these two ladies, but we are still striving and moving, grooving, shaking, and now making a difference in life with people all over the world?
Some ladies may not know who Madam C. J. Walker or Pinky Cole is, but let me explain to you who they are:
Madam C. J. Walker was an entrepreneur activist and a Philanthropist. Madame C. J. Walker’s birth name was Sarah Breedlove, who later would come to be known as Madame C. J. Walker, born in 1867, in Delta Louisiana on a plantation.
“Madam” C. J. Walker founded her own business and began selling Madam Walker’s Wonderful Hair Grower, a scalp conditioning and healing formula, which she claimed had been revealed to her in a dream. Madam Walker did not invent the straightening comb or chemical perms, though many people incorrectly believe that to be true.
151 years later, Aisha “Pinky” Cole, born December 8, 1987, is a Jamaican American restaurateur. She is the owner and operator of Slutty Vegan, a plan-based burger restaurant chain in Atlanta, Georgia. Ms. Cole was born and raised in Baltimore. Her father served prison time for his activity in a drug ring for the first 20 years of her life and was then deported to Jamaica.[1][4] Cole became a vegetarian in 2007, and a vegan in 2014.[1][5]
Cole received her bachelor's degree from Clark Atlanta University.[6][7] She was elected “Miss Clark Atlanta” in 2008 and is a member of Delta Sigma Theta sorority.[8]
In July 2018, Cole was inspired to create a vegan restaurant due to her own cravings for vegan junk food. She came up with the name Slutty Vegan as a provocative hook.[7] She stated in an interview, "Slutty Vegan, to my mind, is someone who eats vegan but enjoys junk food—as long as it’s not dead. I knew the name would be a great hook to help people to reimagine food."[2] That year she sold her first vegan burgers through delivery apps and opened a food truck in September of that year.[1] In January 2019, she opened the first Slutty Vegan brick-and-mortar restaurant in the Westview neighborhood of Atlanta.[1] The restaurant is known for its long lines with hours-long wait times.[1][4] Cole also operates two Slutty Vegan food trucks and opened a second restaurant location in Atlanta in the summer of 2019.[1][10]
All of Slutty Vegan's products are titled with some form of sexual connotation, marketing and trademarking its burgers as; "One Night Stand," "Fussy Hussy," "Sloppy Toppy," "Chick'N Head", and so forth.[11]
Author Deberah Williams
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