Weekend Reading: Hair Wars, Tough Travels, Harlem Rent Strike and Black Hockey Players

Posted on December 22, 2007 by


This is hair!

There’s a new coffee table book called Hair Wars and it’s all about these over the moon hairstyles stylists come up with for black hair trade shows. Okay, this is not really about Uptown, but it’s fun and interesting. Narmer sent me this info and I thought I’d post it…especially since I’m from Detroit and in Detroit, Hair Wars are serious business!
{Detroit News}

Mexicans are having a hard time with U.S. travel this holiday season because of new identification regulations.
{New York Sun}

A pastor at a West Harlem church wants Harlemites to go on a rent strike next year.
{Columbia Spectator}

The National Hockey League has spent $6 million on diversity programs, which includes funding for Ice Hockey in Harlem.
{New York Times}

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