{"id":1720,"date":"2020-08-07T19:10:28","date_gmt":"2020-08-08T00:10:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2025\/?p=1720"},"modified":"2021-08-18T11:31:33","modified_gmt":"2021-08-18T16:31:33","slug":"nallah-brown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2025\/nallah-brown\/","title":{"rendered":"A Close Shave at the Barbershop"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-luminous-vivid-orange-color\">By Nallah Brown<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Barbershops serve as a home of fresh cuts and community on the southside of Tallahassee, Florida. So it came as a shock to Marlon Williams when the state shuttered his Fade Barbershop in March due to COVID-19 emergency restrictions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cYou don\u2019t know how you\u2019re going to support your family or make sure you&#8217;re able to get income for your employees as well,\u201d said Williams.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since reopening in May, the cutting average of 20 heads a day dropped down to seven to 10 heads a day.&nbsp;Williams maintains an attitude of resilience through this uncertainty.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re going to make it,\u201d he said. \u201cWe just have to figure out a new way to make it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery aligncenter columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"http:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_4084-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"1739\" data-full-url=\"http:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_4084-2.jpg\" data-link=\"http:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2025\/?attachment_id=1739\" class=\"wp-image-1739\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_4084-2.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_4084-2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_4084-2-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">No mask, no service at this southside of Tallahassee, Florida barbershop owned by Marlon Williams.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"http:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_4018-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"1737\" data-full-url=\"http:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_4018-2.jpg\" data-link=\"http:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2025\/?attachment_id=1737\" class=\"wp-image-1737\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_4018-2.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_4018-2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_4018-2-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">Texting the next client to come in amid social distancing guidelines.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"http:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_4108-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"1740\" data-full-url=\"http:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_4108-2.jpg\" data-link=\"http:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2025\/?attachment_id=1740\" class=\"wp-image-1740\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_4108-2.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_4108-2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_4108-2-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">Safety precautions at Fade Barbershop in Tallahassee, Florida.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"http:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_3971-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"1738\" data-full-url=\"http:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_3971-2.jpg\" data-link=\"http:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2025\/?attachment_id=1738\" class=\"wp-image-1738\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_3971-2.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_3971-2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_3971-2-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">Safety first at Fade Barbershop on the southside of Tallahassee, Florida.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Barbershops serve as a home of fresh cuts and community on the southside of Tallahassee, Florida. So it came as a shock to Marlon Williams when the state shuttered his Fade Barbershop in March due to COVID-19 emergency restrictions. <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2025\/nallah-brown\/\" title=\"A Close Shave at the Barbershop\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":1732,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,38,177,138],"tags":[137,163],"class_list":{"0":"post-1720","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-archives","8":"category-features","9":"category-nabjnahj-photo-gallery","10":"category-nabjnahj20","11":"tag-nabjnahj20","12":"tag-nallah-brown"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1720"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1762,"href":"https:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1720\/revisions\/1762"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}