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Posts Tagged ‘barber college’

Veteran set on opening East Oakland’s first barber college

By Brett Marsh | October 8, 2019

Chris Colter, who has been working as a licensed barber for over a decade, hopes to open a barber academy in East Oakland. His mission for the academy is to provide opportunities for young African-American men to learn a viable trade.

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