Erika Barris

And these days, there are actually lots of lawsuits about this.

Back then, George and Joan also had marriage troubles.

They got divorced, eventually remarried, but Joan ended up in charge of the company.

So it became Joan's job to rescue what remained.

And she did turn things around.

And then in 1993, she made national news by selling Johnson Products to a white-owned pharmaceutical company for $70 million.

This important Black-owned business was now not.

It got a lot of press coverage, including this one magazine cover it feels like everyone has seen.

It's Joan and her daughter.

They were on the cover of the magazine Black Enterprise in November of 1993 with this headline, Should We Sell Our Firms to Whites?

So George feels good about that.

But for his granddaughter, Olivia Joan, with all those boxes of her grandmother's clothing, it's a bit more complicated.

Show and tell is always great for me.

Yeah.

Okay.

I love show and tell.

She comes back holding this little plastic tub half full of blue goo.

Ultrasheen.

Original formula, conditioner, and hairdress.

You're holding up the hair product that lived in my bathroom growing up.