Barbershop News & Discussion Topics
Everybody knows it's important to speak
English except these knuckleheads.
... You can't be a doctor with that kind of crap coming out of your mouth!"
are the last remaining Black operated and Black owned
Black businesses that have an exclusive Black clientele that exists.
Skintone has always played a large role
in what African Americans cosider to be good looks.
and the So-Called War on Terrorism
The Twin Towers were designed to survive the impact of a Boeing 707
which in weight, size and speed is similar to a Boeing 767
(the kind of jet which hit the South Tower).
Had one of the towers collapsed, that would have been amazing. "experts" say.
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"Blacks coped with job discrimination
partly by setting up their own businesses.
In doing so, they developed their own status hierarchy, with self-employed service businesses
at the top of the ladder... Barbering was [one of] their most prestigious occupation[s],
and community leaders often were barbers who operated
downtown barbershops that catered to the city's elite."-L.A. Glasco
"If you dress cleanly, clean-cut, they call you 'Mr.'"
Harris-Lacewell wrote Barbershops, Bibles, and BET
to explore the way public opinion and ideologies are formed in the black community.
The book, due out next month, examines churches, barbershops, black colleges and black media.
Members of the MOCHA (Men of Color Health Awareness) Project and the Black Men/Latino Men Health Crisis (BMLMHC)
representing a community-wide coalition of groups, held a press conference at Cut Masters
to introduce a new initiative in the city of Rochester
to reach African-American and Latino men and women
and let them know about HIV options and choices in the comfortable community setting of the barbershop.
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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.
In the mid- to late 1880s, German and Italian immigrants usurped black barbers.
*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.
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