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<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" height=145 BGCOLOR="#000000" TEXT="#F7F7FF"> <div> <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Ethnic Barbershop Directory"><U><B><IMG SRC="317f4410.jpg" border=0 width="500" height="65" ALT="Back to the Styles" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="barber_shops.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="BARBERSHOPS"><U><B><IMG SRC="319801e0.jpg" border=0 width="128" height="30" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B> </B><A HREF="barbers_virtual_business_card.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="BARBERS"><U><B><IMG SRC="2744b1e0.jpg" border=0 width="75" height="30" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><A HREF="classifieds.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Classifieds"><U><B><IMG SRC="31d561e0.jpg" border=0 width="86" height="30" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><A HREF="hair_shows.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Events Parties"><U><B><IMG SRC="31f791e0.jpg" border=0 width="121" height="30" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><A HREF="reviews.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Featuring"><U><B><IMG SRC="3214f1e0.jpg" border=0 width="79" height="30" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><A HREF="stylecharts.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Styles Barber Charts"><U><B><IMG SRC="3234a1e0.jpg" border=0 width="74" height="30" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A></div> <div> <B>The ORIGINAL Barbershop Online Directory   </B><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#FF9900" FACE="Arial" ><I><B>The search is OVER   Click.. for  your next CUT</B></I></FONT></div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" height=335 BGCOLOR="#000000" TEXT="#F7F7FF"> <div> <A HREF="id124.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Discussions"><U><IMG SRC="25e891c0.jpg" border=0 width="137" height="28" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="stylecharts8d.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Barber Style Charts"><U><IMG SRC="552d43c0.jpg" border=0 width="468" height="60" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> <div> Barbershop News & Discussion Topics</div> <bR> <div> <B> <IMG SRC="http://service.bfast.com/bfast/serve?bfmid=5647408&siteid=38732990&bfpid=A286201&bfmtype=article" BORDER="0" WIDTH="1" HEIGHT="1" NOSAVE ><A HREF="http://service.bfast.com/bfast/click?bfmid=5647408&siteid=38732990&bfpid=A286201&bfmtype=article" TARGET="_top">Finding Your African American Ancestors: A Beginner Guide</A>  </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Everybody knows it's important to speak</B></div> <div> <B>English except these knuckleheads.</B></div> <div>  ... You can't be a doctor with that kind of crap coming out of your mouth!" </div> <div> says Cosby ...   <A HREF="http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=38584" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.as"><U><B>more on this</B></U></A><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#BFBF00" FACE="Arial" ><B>...</B><A HREF="http://www.boston.com/ae/celebrity/articles/2004/06/01/this_cosby_show_is_undeserved/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.boston.com/ae/celebrity/artic"><U><B>even more</B></U></A></FONT></div> <bR> <div> <B>For the record the </B><A HREF="http://hometown.aol.com/sowestwill/economic.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://hometown.aol.com/sowestwill/econo"><U><B>Black Beauty Salons and Barber Shops</B></U></A><B> </B></div> <div> are the last remaining Black operated and Black owned</div> <div> Black businesses that have an exclusive Black clientele that exists.</div> <div> <A HREF="http://hometown.aol.com/sowestwill/economic.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://hometown.aol.com/sowestwill/econo"><U><B>more on this</B></U></A><B> </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Skintone has always played a large role</B></div> <div> in what African Americans cosider to be good looks.</div> <div> <A HREF="http://northbysouth.kenyon.edu/2000/Beauty/goodlooks.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://northbysouth.kenyon.edu/2000/Beau"><U><B>more on this</B></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <B>The World Trade Center </B><A HREF="http://serendipity.magnet.ch/wtc.html" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://serendipity.magnet.ch/wtc.html"><U><B>Demolition</B></U></A></div> <div> <B>and the So-Called War on Terrorism</B></div> <div> The Twin Towers were designed to survive the impact of a Boeing 707</div> <div> which in weight, size and speed is similar to a Boeing 767</div> <div> (the kind of jet which hit the South Tower).</div> <div> Had <B>one</B> of the towers collapsed, that would have been amazing.  "experts" say.</div> <div> more on this</div> <bR> <div> <B>"Blacks coped with job discrimination</B></div> <div> <B>partly by setting up their own businesses.</B></div> <div> In doing so, they developed their own status hierarchy, with self-employed service businesses</div> <div> at the top of the ladder... <A HREF="http://www.northbysouth.org/2000/Beauty/barshops.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.northbysouth.org/2000/Beauty/"><U>Barbering</U></A> was [one of] their most prestigious occupation[s],</div> <div> and community leaders often were barbers who operated</div> <div> downtown barbershops that catered to the city's elite."-L.A. Glasco</div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.northbysouth.org/2000/Beauty/barshops.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.northbysouth.org/2000/Beauty/"><U><B>more on this</B></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <B>"If you dress cleanly, clean-cut, they call you 'Mr.'"</B></div> <div> --Mr. Walter Hamm, owner of  <A HREF="barbershopsa1.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Pennsylvania"><U>Hamm's Barber Shop</U></A> in Pittsburgh's Hill District</div> <div> <A HREF="http://northbysouth.kenyon.edu/2000/Beauty/Crawford.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://northbysouth.kenyon.edu/2000/Beau"><U><B>more on this</B></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="http://www.suntimes.com/output/lifestyles/cst-nws-barber05.html" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.suntimes.com/output/lifestyle"><U><B>Book shows real world behind 'Barbershop' movies</B></U></A></div> <div> Harris-Lacewell wrote Barbershops, Bibles, and BET </div> <div> to explore the way public opinion and ideologies are formed in the black community. </div> <div> The book, due out next month, examines churches, barbershops, black colleges and black media.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Members of the MOCHA (Men of Color Health Awareness) Project and the Black Men/Latino Men Health Crisis (BMLMHC)</B></div> <div> representing a community-wide coalition of groups, held a press conference at Cut Masters</div> <div> to introduce a new initiative in the city of Rochester</div> <div> to reach African-American and Latino men and women</div> <div> and let them know about HIV options and choices in the comfortable community setting of the barbershop.</div> <div> <A HREF="http://ec.gayalliance.org/articles/000210.shtml#top" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://ec.gayalliance.org/articles/00021"><U><B>more on this</B></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <TABLE BORDER="1" CELLPADDING="1" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="656" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#000000" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP BGCOLOR=#DDDDDD HEIGHT= 284 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="id143.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Book Store"><U><IMG SRC="5ef2c160.gif" border=0 width="300" height="278" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP BGCOLOR=#EEEEEE WIDTH="336"><bR> <div> <B>In antebellum America, some slaves as well as free blacks could earn money barbering, and they held a monopoly in the profession that primarily served wealthy whites. </B></div> <div> <B>In the mid- to late 1880s, German and Italian immigrants usurped black barbers. </B></div> <div> <B>*During the Great Migration, many black newspapers were distributed from black Barbershops.  By 1920, a Chicago directory of black businesses listed 211 barbers and 108 beauty salons. </B></div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <div> <IMG SRC="34fd43c0.jpg" border=0 width="468" height="60" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div>   <p align="center"><a href="http://www.bestblackwebsites.com"onmouseover="self.status='Visit BestBlackWebsites.com'; return true"> <img src="http://www.bestblackwebsites.com/bestblackban1.gif"alt="Best Black Websites.com" border="0" width="468" height="20"><br> The Best Black Owned Websites from all over the World</a>   </div> <div> <B> <IMG SRC="http://service.bfast.com/bfast/serve?bfmid=26298982&siteid=38732990&bfpage=50__off_premium_busi" BORDER="0" WIDTH="1" HEIGHT="1" NOSAVE > <A HREF="http://service.bfast.com/bfast/click?bfmid=26298982&siteid=38732990&bfpage=50__off_premium_busi" TARGET="_top">50% off Premium Business Cards</A>  </B></div> <div> <A HREF="mailto:black-barbershops@earthlink.net" TARGET="_top" TITLE="mailto:black-barbershops@earthlink.net"><U><IMG SRC="3b0ed1c0.jpg" border=0 width="237" height="28" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> <div> Ethnic Media & Promotion PO Box 961093 Riverdale,Ga 30274</div> <div> Copyright ©2001-2004 Ethnic Media & Promotion All Rights Reserved.</div> </td> </tr></table></body>