barbershops
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Black Barbershops Face Divide Over Reopening During Pandemic
Businesses across the country have been reeling from closures due to the coronavirus pandemic. Black barbershops, in particular, have been struggling to survive as their businesses have come to a standstill and their options for relief are increasingly limited. CNN reports that as more states begin to ease restrictions, black barbershops have been divided on…
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Weeks After Attending Haircutting Competition, Mississippi Barber Dies From COVID-19
The family of a beloved Mississippi barber who recently passed away from COVID-19 is making a plea to anyone who will listen: Stay at home. Eugene Thompson, owner of Taper Nation barbershop and barber academy in Brookhaven, Miss., died Saturday in a Jackson hospital two weeks after testing positive for the novel coronavirus, WJTV reports.…
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Tennessee Barbershop Partners With Vanderbilt to Provide Basic Healthcare Services
Black men, historically, are reluctant to go to the doctor. I mean just speaking for myself I’ve only recently been proactive about going to get checkups and all that good stuff. Instead of waiting for us to come to them, doctors at Vanderbilt University Medical Center have taken the initiative to come to us. WSMV…
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Philadelphia Barber Wants Answers After Police Told Him to Stop Providing Free Haircuts to Homeless
After making headlines for providing free haircuts for the homeless in his beloved Philadelphia, barber Brennon Jones is demanding answers on why his charitable efforts have now drawn the wrong type of attention. In a video uploaded to Twitter by Muslim activist StanceGrounded, the Haircuts 4 Homeless founder is seen being accosted by police officers…
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Watch: The Barbershop Books Program Is Changing Lives
By the fourth grade, more than 80 percent of black boys in many of the nation’s school districts have fallen behind their peers in reading. This staggering figure not only highlights the shortcomings of America’s school system but also emphasizes the need for new ideas on how to approach and address the needs of students…
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Why You Should Cheat on Your Barber
Gentlemen, in 2018, I am proposing we take back some control in the relationships we have with our barbers, and yes, this means cheating on them. Of course I understand the sanctity of the relationship between a man and his barber. I have been going to the same barber in New York City for 13…
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Finding My Crowning Glory: A Black Butch Hair Journey
In black America, there’s a mythology surrounding the black beauty shop—I would even argue that the black beauty shop is the place where #BlackGirlMagic actually began. The moment you sit in the chair and the stylist wraps the cape around you is the moment you begin to be magically transformed. But the mythology—and reality—of black…
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For Colored Girls Who Have Considered the Barbershop When the Beauty Salon Was Tew Much
With the rise of the natural-hair movement, women choosing to wear their hair closely cropped and the growing variety of natural hairstyles, black women are beginning to consider the neighborhood barbershop a viable option. Along with the black church, the lady who sells “plates” out of her kitchen and the neighborhood Food and Drug Administration-unapproved…
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