Ji-Aire Bamberg gets a bald fade on the side at Free Haircut Day along Dodge Avenue near Church Street. “It teaches them to keep their glamour together,” said barber Reese Taylor, one of many who donated their work at the Ebony Barber Shop and Cutting Edge Hair Gallery. Nine-year-old Ji-Aire is a fourth grader at Bessie Rhodes School. With haircuts came free school supplies, food and music for more than 100 middle and high school students at the eighth annual event. (Photo by Richard Cahan)

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