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Vol.24 In Memoriam
Dudley Family Announces the Loss of Icon Health insurance is available and Co-Founder offor Dudley Hair Care Empire many people right now
DR. JOEWHO L. DUDLEY, CAN GETSR HEALTH
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) is truly a lifesaver, and you may be able to sign up On the morning of February 8, 2024, We love you! We will forevfor affordable health insurance right now. a legendary figure—Dr. Joe L. Dud- er remember and live by your Although the main time to get health insurance is November 1 through January 15 ley, Sr., the patriarch of the Dud- mantra, I AM, I CAN & I WILL!” ley Hair Care empire, renowned The Wake will be on Sunday, each year, you may qualify for a special Individualsicon, qualify a special enrollment February 18, 2024, from 4 to as an entrepreneur, and for enrollment period (SEP).
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6 PM EST at Providence Bapphilanthropist—peacefully period basedpassed on certain
tist Church in Greensboro, NC. away in the embrace of his For free help to sign up call 336-759-7477. life events or home. circumstances, including: Or email SMjones@smsi-net.com. Tributes poured in for the revered The Homegoing Service will be entrepreneur, icon, and philanthro- held on Monday, February 19,
Sandra Miller Jones
SMSi Healthy Living Solutions, Inc. Founder & CEO
Dr. Lafayette Jones Lafayette Jones
Founder & Chairman Emeritus Publisher, Urban Call; SMSi-Urban AHBAI Health &Inc. Beauty Institute Call Marketing, President & CEO Publisher-Urban Call
PARTNERS MESSAGE First things first! On behalf of the Black Beauty-
care we the offerright our We Industry know that Limited household income. at Mount Zion Church, 1301 pist. The 1. Dudley Family, deeply 2024, GREAT BENEFITS! LOW COSTS! sincere condolences to things to do are to eat athe Church Road, Greenssaddened by expressed Alamance 2. their Lossloss, of qualified health coverage.
boro, NC 27406. The doors will gratitude for Dudley’s in profound All ACA policies cover annual physicals, 3.Dr. Change household size. impact on countless lives. Their open at 8:30 AM EST, and the mammograms, colonoscopies, and many vac4. Change primary place living. will of start at 10 AM EST. message resonated with in love and service cines at no cost to the consumer. About 1/3 of 5. Other situations or exceptional highlighting his legacy. Every.Black will have a Dr. Joe the consumers pay less than $10 a month reverence, for “We are circumstances. deeply saddened by the L. Dudley, Sr. Legacy Project Uptheir insurance premiums, and many pay no loss of our hero, Dr. Joe L. Dudley, date meeting on Sunday, Febpremium at all. Dr. Joe L. Dudley Sr. Our hearts are broken. However, ruary 25, 2024, at 7 PM EST for Call now to see if you qualify, Be a lifesaver: if you are covered, share this, we smile knowing the thousands of everyone to reflect on his life. Entrepreneur, Icon, Philanthropist 336-759-7477. Urban Call publication with 8, a loved lives that he touched and changed. Connect with Dudley Beauty Corp May 9, 1937 – February 2024 one or friend who might need health insurance.Heaven has gained a dynamic LLC via Dudleyq.com or call salesperson and humanitarian. 888-573-8210. ,,
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Sherita Sutton, Asst. Dir., Public Health
Forsyth County Health Officials Jonathan Swift, Dir., Public Health
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healthy diet, exercise entire Dudley Family and its regularly, and get enough decades long friends and supsleep. Although these things porters. are easier said than done, We dedicated to honoring we are can’t stop trying. Since the industry’s history our mental health is while also also promoting vital, take community advantage health. of the For more information about mental health counseling that covered in all ACA theseisinitiatives, visit Health Insurance plans. Stay BlackBeautyLegacy.org and healthy! ReachHealthyLivingSolutions.com.
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Icon and Co-Founder of Dudley Hair Care Empire Dr. Joe L. Dudley, Sr. Passes Away At 86
High Point, NC| February
The Dudley Family
Photo Credit: The Dudley Family
believing in him and is respon- • Elected to The Horatio For details, visit sible for his overcoming these Alger Association of Dis- https://dudleyq.com/JOE-L12, 2024 - Patriarch of the tinguished Americans DUDLEY-SR-TRIBUTE. Dudley Hair Care empire, icon, obstacles and becoming a role • Inducted into the DSA Dr. Joe Dudley, Sr. leaves to entrepreneur and philanthropist model for many. He received numerous Hall of Fame cherish his rich and loving legDr. Joe L. Dudley, Sr. peacefulawards throughout throughout Dudley is the author of the acy: his children, Joe L. Dudley ly passed away in his his lifetime including: book “Walking By Faith, I AM, Jr., Ursula Dudley Oglesby Kernersville, NC home on I CAN & I WILL” where he (Mark), Genea Dudley Gidey Thursday, February 8, 2024. • President George Bush’s discusses his successful princi- (the late Abay Gidey); his“We are deeply saddened by 46th Point of Light Award ple-centered and highly effec- grandchildren, Mark Oglesthe loss of our hero, Dr. Joe L. for Dudley Fellows and tive entrepreneurial recipe. It by Jr, Elena Oglesby, Noah Dudley, Sr. Our hearts are • Ladies Program features ten (10) basic prinGidey; his siblings, William broken. However, we smile Dudley, Cornelius (CC) Dudknowing the thousands of lives • The Direct Selling Asso- ciples including Change Your ciation (DSA) Vision For Attitude to Change Your Life, ley (Emma), Mardecia Dudley that he touched and Tomorrow Award including Change Your Attitude (Pete), Elsie Little (Juarez), changed. Heaven has gained • Maya Angelou Tribute to to Change Your Life, Accept MacArthur Dudley, George a dynamic salesperson and Achievement Award Challenge in Faith, Don’t Add Dudley (Blanche); his beloved humanitarian. We love you! • Inc. Magazine’s North Loss to Loss and Make a Difformer wife and businessWe will forever remember and Carolina Master Entrepre- ference in the World. partner Eunice M. Dudley, his live by your mantra, I AM, I neur Award This book has inspired many devoted caregiver Ella Wilson, CAN & I WILL!” - The Dudley • 2005 Trumpet Award to pursue their purpose. his Dudley Products, Dudley Family Winner Celebration of Life events for Beauty Corp and Fuller ProdBorn May 9, 1937, Dudley • Inducted into The Nation- Dr. Joe L. Dudley, Sr. will be ucts family, and a host of other was labeled intellectually disal Black College Alumni held February 18 & 19, 2024 in relatives, friends & colleagues. abled and suffered a speech Hall of Fame Greensboro, NC and are open impediment. Through it all, his (Business/Industry) to the public. mother never stopped
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Resolution
Dr. Katie B. Catalon National President, NBCL, Inc.
faithfully matriculated to establish himself to a higher level of spiritual growth. Be it known that I am thankful, and o grateful to Almighty God for his dedicaWHEREAS, Dr. Joe L. Dudley, Sr. was a very caring friend of the National tion to individuals in the beauty Beauty Culturists’ League lncorporated, industry. BE it resolved that I now extended to and faithfully inspired, and gave of his time, energy, and financial support with this family, loved ones, and friends of words of encouratement and wisdom for Dr. Joe L. Dudley Sr., for his dedication, this Resolution, and that they will retain many years. their faith in Jesus Christ for all WHEREAS, the passing of Dr. Joe L. believers. Dudley, Sr., leaves a void that can’t be Resolved that his soul repose in peace filled. for his resurrection with Jesus christ WHEREAS, as the President of the given to him this day in February 2O24, National Beauty Culturists’ League lncorporated, I will always remember the in the year of our lord and Savior. friendship established with him. THEREFORE, be it resolved that the National Beauty Culturists’ League lncorporated hereby proclaim our friend as one who gave of his time and energies in performing the good deeds, and
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Joe Louis Dudley, Pioneering Hair Care Entrepreneur, Dies at 86
By Penelope Green turned out to be S.B. Fuller, and beFebruary 16, 2024 - Joe Louis Dudley, gan selling himself. who expanded a kitchen-table busiIt was challenging at first because ness that he started with his wife at Mr. Dudley still stuttered. Sympathe time into one of the largest Blackthetic housewives taught him how to They also bought a radio station, a hair straightener. He was aghast at the pronounce the product names, and he owned hair care companies in the Southeast, and who founded schools hotel and a travel agency, and built an economics: a 7,000 pound vat of relax- practiced at night in front of a mirror event center. Like his mentor, Mr. Full- er, he was told, was worth $18,000. that trained tens of thousands of until he overcame his impediment. “If you make enough Black women cosmetologists, died on Feb. 8 at his er, Mr. Dudley was a sales evangelist He met Eunice Mosley, a fellow Fuller happy,” Mr. Rock declared in the film, home in Kernersville, N.C., a suburb and a man of staunch Christian faith. salesperson, and they married in He recruited local college students to as the camera panned to the Dudley of Winston-Salem, He was 86. 1961. mansion, “you can live like a king.” The cause was complications of Par- work for him as well as people down Lafayette Jones, chairman emeritus kinson’s disease, his daughter Ursula on their luck — those who had been of the American Health and Beauty incarcerated or who had problems with “Lafayette Jones, chairman Aids Institute, an association of Black Dudley Oglesby said. In the 1960s, Joe and Eunice Dudley drugs. manufacturers, said by phone that Mr. emeritus of the American Employees were required to open were newly married and selling S.B. Dudley had been “a leader among savings accounts, and sales meetings Health and Beauty Aids Fuller beauty products door to door Black hair care royalty.” often began with a song. It was Mr. in New York City. Mr. Fuller — no Institute, an association of In addition to his daughter Ms. relation to the venerable Fuller Brush Dudley’s practice to recast pop tunes Black manufacturers, said Oglesby, Mr. Dudley is survived by Company door-to-door enterprise — into Dudley cheers, as he did with the his son, Joe Louis Dudley Jr.; another Donna Summer disco hit “Bad Girls”: by phone that Mr. Dudley was a Chicago-based Black busidaughter, Genea Dudley Gidey; his Now Dudley folk know how to build nessman who preached a gospel of had been “a leader among siblings, Elsie Little and William, advancement through hard work and Know how to build Cornelius, Mardecia, MacArthur and And they get it done with the strength Black hair care royalty.” who made millions in the days when George Dudley; and three grandchilo women were eager to buy cosmetics of will dren. He and his wife divorced amiWith the strength of will Joe Louis Dudley, named for the box- cably in 2000 and remained business in their homes. We didn’t come to Kernersville to be ing legend, was born on May 9, 1937, partners. Imbibing his training and message, sitting down in coastal Aurora, N.C., the fifth of 11 the Dudleys took their door-to-door Mr. Dudley won the Horatio Alger To be sitting down children. His parents, Clara (Yeates) Fuller venture to North Carolina. Award in 1995, an annual honor given We came to be the talk of the town and Gilmer Dudley, were farmers who in Washington to, as the organization And when the Fuller company had raised tobacco and sweet potatoes. manufacturing problems, they began We’re bad Dudley notes, “leaders who have triumphed Bad Dudley Their family of 14, which included Joe’s over adversity.” Quincy Jones, the making their own products: scalp grandfather Ballam Dudley, who had creams, oil shampoos and pomades We are big bad Dudley music producer, and Don Shula, the Beep, Beep been born into slavery, lived together in longtime coach of the Miami Dolphins, that they mixed at home and poured Uh hum a crowded three-room farmhouse. Joe, were also given the award that year. into old mayonnaise jars. Toot, Toot who stuttered, was held back in first Mr. Dudley stirred the formulas in In 2007, a section of the Kernersville Mr. Dudley had set himself a goal grade at school after his teachers had factory, where the Dudley compasteel drums with a spatula the size labeled him, using the cruel jargon of of a canoe paddle. Ms. Dudley typed of being a millionaire at 40, which he ny manufactured 90 percent of its the times, “mentally retarded.” the labels, and their children screwed achieved. Over decades, the compaproducts, was damaged in a fire, and “Prove them wrong, Joe,” his mother then the recession hit. With the help on the jar tops after the products had ny’s annual sales reached $40 million. The comedian Chris Rock once made encouraged him, as he often recalled. of Ms. Oglesby, a Harvard-trained cooled and set overnight. “Prove them wrong.” The Dudley kitchen, Ms. Dudley said a pilgrimage to the Dudley factory in lawyer, the Dudleys restructured and He studied business administration at downsized, and Ms. Oglesby became by phone, was not for cooking meals. Kernersville while making “Good Hair,” the Agricultural and Technical College president and chief executive of the But they soon moved their operations a 2009 documentary. He had set out in the film to investigate the mysteries of North Carolina (now North Carolina newly-formed Dudley Beauty Corp. out of the kitchen. And after a stint and rituals of Black hair care — and the A&T State University), a historically in Chicago, where the Dudleys took At his death, Mr. Dudley was still onerous standards of beauty and race Black college. It took him six years to over the Fuller business, which was working. Ms. Dudley has no plans to — to answer one of his young daugh- graduate because he was also working retire. floundering, they returned to North ter’s questions, “Why don’t I have good for a time in a poultry factory. Carolina and built their first plant, in Penelope Green is a reporter on the Later, living in Brooklyn with an aunt, Obituaries desk and a feature writer. Greensboro, adding Fuller products to hair?” The Dudley Company headquarters he saw a smart-looking young man their own line. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/16/ selling beauty products in the neighbor- business/joe-louis-dudley-dead. They went on to open Dudley beauty was a hub for Black beauty products, and Mr. Rock went there to learn in hood one day. Intrigued, he bought a schools in North Carolina, Chicago, html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referparticular about relaxer, the powerful $10 kit from the man’s company, which ringSource=highlightShare and Washington, D.C.