George E. Johnson, the pioneering Chicago entrepreneur whose eponymous company transformed Black hair care in the United States with brands ​including Afro Sheen, Ultra Wave and Classy Curl, died on M...

George E. Johnson, a hair-care magnate who rose from a sharecropper’s cabin to found, with his wife, Joan, what was said to be the first Black-owned company listed on a major American stock exchange, ...