Black-Owned Cleveland-Based Barbershop That Offers Free Health Screenings Awarded $10K From Beyoncé’s BeyGOOD Foundation
Beyoncé has donated $10,000 to a Black-owned barbershop.
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previously told you, BeyGOOD, Beyoncé’s charity foundation — in partnership with her haircare brand Cécred — launched a $500,000 annual fund to support cosmetology students through scholarships and empower salons and barbershops with capital, business development tools, mentorship, and resources.
“Hairstylists have an immense impact on the people in their chairs. They create a sacred space where we can show up how we want and express ourselves through our hair. We’re honored to give back to this amazing community,” reads a statement on the foundation’s website.
This year’s winners include Urban Kutz Barbershop, a Cleveland-based business owned by Waverly Willis that won a $10,000 grant, News 5 Cleveland reports. What’s more, this isn’t your average barbershop. Per News 5 Celbeland, it is reportedly Ohio’s largest minority-owned barbershop chain, and it offers health screenings, including prostate cancer screenings, in partnership with Case Western Reserve University.
“We’ve had men in here, their blood pressure has been so high that we would check their blood pressure and we would tell them skip the hair cut and go straight to the ER, and this has happened on more than one occasion they come back to us and say, they didn’t even know how I was walking around,” Willis told the outlet.
He said the health screenings helped the barbershop receive a grant because they displayed a “commitment to community service,” according to News 5 Cleveland.
Additional winners of this year’s salon and barbershop business grant recipients include:
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Majestic Beauty Salon (Tuskegee, AL)
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4TheLoveOfHair (Altadena, CA)
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Mr C’s All in the Family Barbershop (Omaha, NE)
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Thee Hair Life (Los Angeles, CA)
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Shy Watters Hair Studio (Baltimore, MD)
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Groom Guy (Washington, D.C.)
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The Cultivation Lair (West Palm Beach, FL)
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5ifth Studio (New Orleans, LA)
See the complete list of winners on the foundation’s website.
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