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Grooming the Groom: Men's Wedding Haircut and Styling Tips

Men need wedding hairstyling too. Here's how to go about it—and when.

How To Choose & Talk To Your Barber or Hair Stylist

Learn how to choose the best possible barber or hairstylist for you and how to interact with that hair professional once in the chair to get great results.

25 Men's Style Terms Every Menswear Nerd Should Know

How barbers could help lower blood pressure

Providing blood pressure monitoring and health services in black-owned barbershops resulted in significant blood pressure reductions among customers, according to a new study.

Can barbershops become safe spaces for Black men to talk about mental health?

COVID-19 has brought mental health front and center, especially in the Black community. A major hospital in Arkansas just got a multi-million-dollar grant to go into barbershops and talk to Black m…

How barber shops around the country are helping to reduce mental health stigma

After his own experiences grappling with depression and anxiety, Lorenzo Lewis wanted to help Black men and boys with their mental health.

5 black barbers on why barbershops are sacred spaces

Exploring the significance of the black barbershop, in photos and interviews.

Black Men and Mental Illness Can Be a Barbershop Conversation, Too

Barbershops are where brothers talk about almost everything. One subject, however, seems to be taboo, and it's an important one that needs much more exposure in the Black community: mental health. We revisit this informative and insightful October 2015 article on World Mental Health Day, October 10.

You Can Wash Your Hair With Beer at Birds Barbe...

If you've ever visited a Birds Barbershop in Austin, then you're well aware of their free-beer-with-haircut policy. Well, now you can drink a cold beer and wash your hair with it. Why would you do such a thing? Well, according to experts, the proteins in a

Home Hacks: How to cut hair while salons and barbershops are closed

A licensed cosmetologist explains some simple grooming techniques you can use at home.

Barbershops taking blood pressure sustains positive results

A barbershop program that successfully helped black men lower their blood pressure is proving to have long-lasting benefits.

I Miss My Black Barbershop

Barbershop Books is using barbershops to inspire young black boys to read

It's easy to give someone a book. It's a lot harder to help transform someone into a reader.

Barbershop chairs become safe spaces, way to clear mind during stressful times

For many of us, it can feel like the weight of the world is on our shoulders, especially with news of world conflicts available at our fingertips.

Barbershop-Based Screening Combs Through Customers for Diabetes

The study shows the benefits of bringing a diabetes screening program to one place a high-risk population can reliably be found -- the black barbershop.

Breast Cancer in Women Age 65 and Older (VIDEO)

Most of these older patients who are diagnosed with the earliest stages of breast cancer do as well as younger women with the same diagnosis.