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Have a story from Harlan’s Barbershop? Jill Wells wants to make it a part of her new Des Moines art piece

by Isaac Hamlet

Barbershops have long served as social and cultural hubs for Black Americans, and Harlan’s Barbershop, open for half a century in Des Moines’ Woodland Heights neighborhood, was no exception. Harlan’s opened in 1968; that same year, construction finished on I-235, which had displaced thriving Black businesses, churches and communities in the Center Street district, not […]

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