Comer Cottrell, one of the nation’s most successful African American businessman, died Friday morning in his home in Dallas, Texas. Cottrell, 82, was the CEO of the lucrative black hair care company ...

Comer Cottrell, an entrepreneur and philanthropist who turned a small Los Angeles operation into a multimillion-dollar success story by catering to the hair care needs of African Americans, died ...

Comer Cottrell, a black hair-care entrepreneur who made millions with a cheap kit that brought the glossy celebrity Jheri curl into the homes of average African Americans, has died. He was 82.

Comer Cottrell, creator of the Curly Kit, an in-home hair treatment that allowed users to get the Jheri Curl hairstyle popularized by Michael Jackson at a reasonable price, died on October 10 at the ...

The 70s and 80s will be remembered by many as the era of disco and Dynasty. But for some of us, those years were marked by the rise of the Jheri Curl. Named for stylist Jheri Redding, the Jheri Curl ...

The man who brought a pricey but popular hairstyle to the masses of African Americans in the 1980s has died. Comer Cottrell, creator of Pro-Line products and the iconic Curly Kit, died at home in ...

This March 8, 2007, file photo shows Comer Cottrell, former owner of Pro-Line posing at the Comer Cottrell Student Center on the campus of Paul Quinn College, in Dallas. (AP Photo/The Dallas Morning ...

Comer Cottrell, an entrepreneur and philanthropist who turned a small Los Angeles operation into a multimillion-dollar success story by catering to the hair-care needs of African Americans, died Oct.

When Alabama-born Comer Cottrell moved his pro-line corp., an ethnic hair-care company, from Los Angeles to North Texas in 1980, he says he saw Dallas as “my kind of town … where money not only talks, ...

Cottrell died last Friday in Plano, Tex. His do-it-yourself product brought more affordable curly hair to the masses. The 70s and 80s will be remembered by many as the era of disco and Dynasty. But ...

Comer Cottrell, an entrepreneur and philanthropist who turned a small Los Angeles operation into a multimillion-dollar success story by catering to the hair care needs of African-Americans, died ...

Later, regular black folks --some statistics say as many as 1 in 4--were able to wear the same style, thanks to Comer Cottrell. Cottrell founded the Pro-Line Corp, a hair care company aimed at the ...