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Master Barber Antonio Brown’s ‘Barbershop Book Club’ expands

Central Station Barbershop & Grooming’s Barbershop Book Club is a huge hit among the youth. Photos courtesy of Antonio Brown J.A. Jones, Staff Writer ST. PETERSBURG – Barbershops hold an almost mythic quality in the Black community in America and around the world. Classic movies and plays have been set in barbershops; historic images of […]

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