A'Lelia Bundles

A'Lelia Bundles (born June 7, 1952)[1] is an African-American journalist.

Family and early life

Bundles grew up in Indianapolis in a family of civic minded business executives. She was named after A'Lelia Walker (1885–1931), a central figure of the Harlem Renaissance.[2] Walker was her great-grandmother and the daughter of entrepreneur Madam C. J. Walker. Bundles' mother, A'Lelia Mae Perry Bundles (1928–1976), vice president of the Madam C. J. Walker Manufacturing Company and active in local and state Democratic politics, also served as a member of the Washington Township School Board and was a fiscal administrator with the City of Indianapolis. Her father, S. Henry Bundles, Jr. (1927-), became president of Summit Laboratories, another hair care manufacturer, in 1957 after having worked briefly with the Walker Company. He served as an Indianapolis 500 Festival director for many years and was a board member of the Indianapolis Convention and Visitors Bureau.

Bundles graduated in 1970 in the top five per cent of her class from North Central High School where she was co-editor of the Northern Lights, vice president of student council and co-chair and founder of the human relations council that addressed racial issues in a school with a student population that was less than ten percent black. In 1974 Bundles graduated magna cum laude from Radcliffe College.[3] She was inducted into Harvard's Alpha Iota chapter of Phi Beta Kappa.[4] Bundles received a master's degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 1976.[3]

Career

She is a former producer and executive with ABC News, having served as director of talent development in Washington, DC and New York, as well as in the position of deputy bureau chief in Washington, DC, as a producer for World News Tonight with Peter Jennings and as chair of a diversity council appointed to advise ABC News president David Westin. Prior to joining ABC News, she was a producer with NBC News in the New York, Houston and Atlanta bureaus for The Today Show and NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw. She also was a producer in Washington, DC for two of NBC's magazine programs co-anchored by Connie Chung and Roger Mudd during the 1980s.

Her book, On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C. J. Walker (Scribner, 2001), was named a New York Times' Notable Book in 2001,[5] and received the Association of Black Women Historians 2001 Letitia Woods Brown Prize for the best book on black women's history. Her young adult biography, Madam C. J. Walker: Entrepreneur, (Chelsea House, 1991) received a 1992 American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation.[6]

She is a trustee[3] of Columbia University and serves as chair and president of the Board of Directors of the National Archives Foundation.[7]

She is a past member of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study's advisory board, the Harvard Alumni Association nominating committee, the Harvard Club of Washington, DC board, the Radcliffe College Trustees Board and the National Women's Hall of Fame board. She was president[8] of the Radcliffe College Alumnae Association from 1999 to 2001 and chaired the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism's alumni advisory committee to change the school's alumni organization in 2006.[9]

List of works

Awards

References

  1. ↑ "A'Lelia Perry Bundles". Contemporary Authors Online (Detroit: Gale). 2004.
  2. ↑ "A History of Her Own", Indianapolis Woman, February 2001,
  3. 1 2 3 "Office of the Secretary of The University: A’Lelia Bundles". Columbia University. 2010. Retrieved 2011-02-03.
  4. ↑ Resnick, Scott (June 9, 1999). "Phi Beta Kappa Honors Harvard Inductees". Harvard Crimson. Retrieved 2011-02-03.
  5. 1 2 "Notable Books: Nonfiction". New York Times. December 2, 2001. Retrieved 2011-02-03.
  6. 1 2 American Booksellers Association (2013). "The American Book Awards / Before Columbus Foundation [1980–2012]". BookWeb. Archived from the original on March 13, 2013. Retrieved September 25, 2013. 1992 [...] Madam C.J. Walker, A'Lelia Perry Bundles
  7. ↑ "Board of Directors - National Archives Foundation". Retrieved 2015-10-10.
  8. ↑ Harvard Gazette: C.J. Walker's story is told at Radcliffe
  9. 1 2 "Trustee Bios". Columbia University. 2010. Retrieved 2011-02-03.
  10. ↑ ABC News Wins duPont Gold Baton
  11. ↑ Black Caucus of the American Library Association Literary Awards Winners (1994–Present) — Infoplease.com
  12. ↑ Radcliffe Institute to Honor Radcliffe and Harvard Women of Achievement - Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study – Harvard University
  13. ↑ Recipients of Indiana University Honorary Degrees

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