Black barbers were once important community leaders. The Levine of the Museum South features Charlotte’s Thad Tate in it’s Cotton Fields to Skyscrapers exhibit. Tate was a founder of Grace A.M.E. Zion Church in Charlotte. He helped to start the Brevard Street Library which later became a part of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Library System. Tate co-founded of […]
Whether you get your haircut at No Grease Barbershop or not, you’ve heard of them. They are one of Charlotte’s most popular barbershops and one of the city’s most successful businesses. Charlotte Observer business columnist Ron Stodghill wrote about No Grease co-founders Damian and Jermaine Johnson, known simply to most as the twins. No Grease […]
