Angelique Jackson When adapting the story of Madam C.J. Walker, America’s first Black female self-made millionaire, into Netflix’s limited series “Self Made,” co-showrunner Elle Johnson knew that there was one thing the team must get right — the hair.“This was something that myself, the other co-showrunner Janine [Sherman Barrois] and Nicole [Jefferson Asher, series writer] were all really concerned with,” Johnson says. “Because we knew that this project, obviously, is about hair and beauty, that it had to be on point and that we would get dragged if it didn’t look authentic on screen.”Over the course of the four-episode limited-series, Madam C.J.
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