Hair-Itage Project
Hair-Itage Project:
Written by Hair-Itage Project ensemble members
Directed by Layla Young & Jennifer Welch
Location: Clarksdale, Mississippi
Newsroom: StoryWorks (Jennifer Welch)
The Hair-Itage Project is a multi-platform oral history, theater and education project that examines: how black-owned barber shops and beauty salons contributed to the civil rights movement, the social and political conversations surrounding black hair, and the role of salons and barber shops as vital community spaces.
