The Black Barber Shop with Quincy Mills (May 2022)

Black History Year

PushBlack

History, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 24 June 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

The Black barbershop is a cultural institution. It's a place where you can get much more than a haircut. You get community. You get jokes. You might get politicized. And you will get the straight talk that we often hold back when navigating a larger public that's committed to white supremacist systems. In May 2022, Jay sat down with Quincy Mills to help us understand both the politics and economics of Black barber shops. Quincy is an associate professor of history at the University of Maine and College Park. Along with teaching courses in 20th-century African-American history, he's authored "Cutting Along the Color Line: Black Barbers and Barber Shops in America” and is working on a new book called “The Wages of Resistance: Financing the Black Freedom Movement." NOTE: Today's history story is a fictional account of what so many Black barbershops experienced historically To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I made you think you was real.
0:02.0	My name is Caden Sinclair.
0:04.0	Some people call us American royalty.
0:06.0	We were liars.
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0:09.0	We were happy. We wanted for nothing.
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0:15.0	Something terrible happened last summer,
0:17.0	and I have no memory of what or who hurt me.
0:20.0	No one in my family will tell me.
0:22.7	When you're left for dead, you want answers.
0:25.2	We Will Liars.
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0:30.1	I remember my first trip to the barbershop with my father.
0:33.9	He sat down at Nash's barbershop, big chair chair it looked like this big command central chair that he
0:40.7	was sitting in as Nash Reverend Nash who knew draped the cloth around his neck and while he was doing
0:49.6	that my dad was sitting there talking to everyone in the barbershop.
0:54.5	Now, I was only paying partial attention because when I went to the barbershop with my dad,
0:59.8	I carried all of my comic books and I would be reading them.
1:02.9	But I did notice that there was this community that I never saw my dad engage with.
1:09.8	Here was my dad in this room with men who looked like him having a great time.
1:17.0	And he was conversing, he was debating, he was questioning, and he was smiling, he was laughing.
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