Big Brothers Big Sisters of Metropolitan Detroit (BBBSMD) is partnering with local barbershops to recruit more African-American male mentors. Five area barbershops are scheduled to participate in the barbershop volunteer recruitment effort. Through this partnership, BBBSMD expects to recruit nearly 50 new mentors. Barbershops are a sanctuary for African-American men, especially on Saturday mornings. This is a perfect way to inform African-American men of the need for mentoring and why BBBSMD needs more African-American men to get involved in our community," said [Antonio Guevara], who also serves as a mentor. "I have seen the benefits of mentoring in my own mentee. He has definitely grown. "We are looking for men who are consistent and are willing to commit to at least one year of men...
Grateful to all of the celebrities who have helped spotlight the program, Dr. Releford hopes to also gain the support of Ice Cube who starred in the popular "Barbershop" movies, as well as Queen Latifah who starred in "Beauty Shop," to bring more public awareness to the program to save lives. "We are developing the beginning stages of a pilot program for health screenings in beauty shops for later part of this year. It hasn't been as easy getting funding for the BBHOP as celebrity and barbershop support Most potential sponsors told the doctor they didn't fund projects for men, only women and children. However, the Abbott Fund took a chance and have become the program's national sponsor. "We are grateful," says Dr. [Bill J. Releford]. "They have been very generous." For the second conse...
It was suggested at a City Council meeting that we look at businesses that are rapidly expanding and those occupying a lot of commercial space," said Calumet City Mayor Michelle Markiewicz Qualkinbush. "There was no moratorium proposed for barbershops and hair salons, merely a suggestion of how to keep shops from over saturating the area. "There are not a lot of barbershops or hair salons here. The city wants to slow down the growth of shops because many of them are Black-owned and they fear the high traffic it generates will lead to crimes," said Cynthia Bynum, 39, a hair stylist at Transitions Salon, 915 Burnham Ave. "And what's funny about all of this is the city just hired a Black man to be the police chief." "Barbershops and hair salons are not big sales tax generators for Calume...
Doctors and nurses will give free blood-pressure screenings and other tests at local barbershops Thursday in an annual campaign aimed at promoting good health in black communities. Take a Health Professional to the People Day," in its ninth year, is organized by the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health's Center for Minority Health.
While the three-block area between Washington and Wall avenues has always been 25th Street, through the decades it earned many notable nicknames - Brownsville, based on the type of buildings built along the street; Junction City, due to its connection with the railroad, with 25th Street ending at the Union Station; Little Chicago, during the Prohibition years in the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s, when underground life in the city's rumored tunnels ruled the area; and Two-Bit Street, when the area turned into the city's red light district in the 1950s and 1960s. Today, Historic 25th Street boasts an eclectic row of restaurants and bakeries, coffee shops, antique stores and art galleries intermingled with a handful of bars, hair salons and old-fashioned barbershops, a comedy club and a variety ...
Editor's Note: ,mili In the wake of the One Sunset scandal, in which the city's economic development agency funded and helped operate the failed restaurant and bar, The Buffalo News analyzed how Buffalo spends the federal funds it receives to promote economic development and urban renewal. ***
The room was filled with the sounds of laughter and argument as a college professor, UPS delivery man. community college student, bank employee and two barbers all pontificated about life, money, race and of course, sports.
PASSAIC City officials hope to limit evening hours at barbershops and beauty parlors to crack down on illegal activity that gravitates to shops still open late at night. The new hours from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m. at the latest are similar to a proposal advanced by Paterson's City Council this year.
HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam - To most Westerners, the idea of paying someone to stick little scoops and tweezers into their ears is downright unnerving. To Vietnamese, it's an art. Though the procedure may sound like torture, men line up day in and day out to experience this unorthodox probing. It's part of the country's pampering culture and is offered in corner barbershops, the oases where Vietnamese while away hot afternoons with luxurious shampoos, relaxing shaves and facials. But it's the picking that elicits moans of ecstasy.
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