Entrepreneur starts magazine to bring the “Black Barbershop Experience” Home…
May 15, 2008 by P.Cash
Today I was checking out an article on ajc.com about a brother named Brian Egeston, who turned his love of writing and barbershop discourse into a Magazine. Barbershop Digest is distributed for free in Atlanta-Area barbershops, and it aims to bring the experience of the black barbershop, popularized by Ice Cube in his movie “Barbershop”, home. Inside its cover you will find just about any of the outlandish topics that one would encounter in a black barbershop on a Saturday afternoon.
For example, the current edition looks at the Jeremiah Wright-Barack Obama conflict and covers it like Max Kellerman would cover a fight between Bernard Hopkins and Oscar De La Hoya, complete with a “tale of the tape.” Just like a conversation in a barbershop, the magazine covers a wide variety of issues such as health, barbershop profiles with individual profiles of the barbers, and of course politics, sports and cars. The magazine is smartly done, and if you do not live in the Atlanta area, you can check out the latest issue on their website, http://www.barbershopdigest.com/.
Congratulations on the launch and growth of the digest! Keep up the good work we will be in Atlanta for our national campaign with the http://www.blackbarbershop.org We will be reaching out to Brian for his support. Stay focused as our industry continues to unite one barber at a time!
Thanks.
Dwayne Thompson
VP of Marketing and Sales
http://www.againstthegrainmag.com