Crown Affair

In an essay for the Los Angeles Times, Browne writes about how getting his hair cut affected his youth and identity:  “So much of being young and Black for me was simply listening. Soaking up my surroundings. Studying all of the characters. Watching the way people dressed, absorbing the way people joked, got clowned, handled being the centerpiece of a roast... Traditionally, all of those things happened at the barbershop.”