Features

CLIPS: Keeping the American Dream alive near Farragut Square

Rebecca Sheir Friday, October 02, 2015

In our latest episode of CLIPS, our barbershop oral history project in partnership with Metro Connection, we visit a barber with the "fountain of youth"...

Clips

Foggy Bottom/Golden Triangle

CLIPS: J&C Barbershop part of Park View melting pot

Rachel Kaufman Friday, July 03, 2015

Even celebrities have to get their hair cut, and the unassuming barbershop on Georgia Avenue just south of the Petworth metro is where at least two D.C. celebs go. In today’s installment of CLIPS we visit the barber to both former council member Jim Graham and WAMU radio host Kojo Nnamdi.

Clips

Park View/Pleasant Plains

CLIPS: A barber to the Marines watches Barracks Row change

Rachel Kaufman Friday, May 08, 2015

Sheila Knox, a female barber on Barracks Row, reflects on community in her changing neighborhood.

Clips

The Hill

CLIPS: A quarter-century in, 'business is even better' at this Adams Morgan barbershop

Rachel Kaufman Friday, April 03, 2015

Kofi Asante moved in when the largest club for African and Caribbean music sat directly across from his shop; now it's a gym. But business is booming at Eddie's Hair Creations, now in its 24th year.

Clips, Entrepreneurship, Health and Wellbeing

Adams Morgan

CLIPS: Brookland barber searching for a new home (now with audio!)

Rachel Kaufman Tuesday, February 03, 2015

M&S Barber Services, a fixture in Brookland for almost 20 years, needs to find a new location. But the story of one barber shop versus neighborhood change is so much bigger.

Clips, Community Development

Brookland