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Durret is now preparing to open a trio of businesses in the coming weeks, all in the 600 block of Castle. With Ian Simpson, Durret is launching the Velvet Room microcinema, a 50-seat theater and ...
The Greensboro sit-ins were a series of nonviolent protests in February to July 1960, primarily in the Woolworth store — now the International Civil Rights Center and Museum — in Greensboro, North Carolina, [1] which led to the F. W. Woolworth Company department store chain removing its policy of racial segregation in the Southern United States. [2]
[9] Barbershops from black barbers at first mostly served wealthy Caucasians. In the later part of the century they opened barbershops in black communities for serving black people. [10] The average shop cost $20 to equip in 1880. It was about ten by twelve feet. A hair cut in 1880 would cost five or ten cents and shaving cost three cents. [11]
Alonzo Herndon. Alonzo "Lon" Franklin Herndon (June 26, 1858 Walton County, Georgia – July 21, 1927) was an African-American entrepreneur and businessman in Atlanta, Georgia.
Saturday opened with Family Cinema at Jengo’s Playhouse, showing short films from the Black Girls Film Camp the first 40 minutes, a highlight for festival director Charlon Everett.
Adapted from Craig Marberry's best selling book Cuttin' Up: Wit and Wisdom from Black Barber Shops, the play also received productions at Pasadena Playhouse, Cleveland Play House, and the Alliance Theatre. His play, The Night Is A Child, premiered at the Milwaukee Repertory Theater in March 2008 under the direction of Timothy Douglas. [26]
On Black Friday, Old Navy stores will open as early as 5 a.m. for you to snag those early bird deals. Stores will remain open until anywhere from 7 p.m. to 11 p.m., depending on the location. Old ...
William T. Johnson (c. 1809 – June 17, 1851) was a free African American barber of biracial parentage, who lived in Natchez, Mississippi. He was born into slavery but his owner, also named William Johnson and thought to be his father, emancipated him in 1820. His mother, Amy, had been freed in 1814 and his sister Adelia in 1818.