In a barbershop called Stud Cuts, just off the base, a young man is having his head shaved.

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Mr. AMANI MARTIN (Producer, Cutting Edge): Well, what we felt had not been done was a real-life, true depiction of what happens in a black barbershop.

NPR: 'Cutting Edge': Inside Black Barbershops

And for those who have never had the pleasure of sitting in a black barbershop and getting all of what you've heard about, this is a good way to do it.

NPR: 'Cutting Edge': Inside Black Barbershops

Mr. MARTIN: I was just going to say, this is a barbershop, a black barbershop in Harlem.

NPR: 'Cutting Edge': Inside Black Barbershops

Myers died early Thursday in a gunfight with officers in an abandoned tavern where he holed up 19 hours earlier after walking into the barbershop and a car care shop and shooting six men, four fatally.

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It was almost a form of family therapy in the barbershop.

NPR: 'Cutting Edge': Inside Black Barbershops

And they then began to kind of go back and forth about why he had been kicked out and her defending her reasons for kicking him out, and everyone who was sitting in the barbershop was participating in the conversation, not really taking a side, but really helping this family.

NPR: 'Cutting Edge': Inside Black Barbershops

Mr. Flynn, 73 years old and a life-long barber, has been clipping hair in his small clapboard barbershop just off Main Street for 15 years and figures he will still be standing at the black swivel chair when the next bust comes.

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