“Barber Shop Chronicles” takes place in a series of barbershops, where men of African heritage gather for fellowship along with a trim in African countries still traumatized by colonialism or in ...

While Washington settles into its new political reality, a health-care revolution is taking shape in unexpected places — your local barbershop. As the new administration prepares to implement its ...

Neighborhood barbers, by conducting a monitoring, education and physician-referral program, can help their African-American customers better control high blood pressure problems that pose special ...

Ray Connor traces his ambition to be a barber back to when he was a kid in Detroit. Growing up, he was abused. He watched his mother battle drug and alcohol addictions. He often went to bed hungry.

Books With Barbers is a program that puts children’s books, particularly targeted at young African-American boys, into local barbershops to promote literacy. At Man of Honor Baber & Grooming, the ...

LAFAYETTE, Ind. — The Lafayette pioneer community offered its small African American population unskilled work as cooks, whitewashers and laborers. Enterprising individuals, however, thwarted ...

Kelly was so touched by what he saw that he created "Barber Shop Talks" in its image tailored specifically to university students. The themes of the meetings ranged from politics to relationships to ...