Samuel Brown is best known as Sam the Barber, traveling around Chicago giving out free haircuts and making friends along the way. A year ago, he started a nonprofit called Haircuts for Humane, which he now runs full-time. BlackVoicesWTTW
Brown is known as Sam the Barber. He travels around Chicago giving out free haircuts and making friends along the way. A year ago, he started a nonprofit called“It’s like therapy,” Brown said. “When I cut hair, I be in a different place.”“I grew up in a single home — my mother, two sisters,” Brown said. “My mother was addicted to cocaine. She was alcoholic.”
Brown recently partnered with the Chicago Public Library for free haircut pop-ups across city branches. He said local libraries branches were a safe haven for him when he was homeless: “I was going to libraries to get heat and resources.”“She never gave up on me,” Brown said. “She is fighting for me right now. I saw her a few days ago, and she was like, ‘Keep doing what you are doing in the world.’”“People want someone to listen to them,” Brown said.
With an infectious smile, Brown said he wants to pay it forward the way people helped him along his journey.Brown’s next free hair cut event is Tuesday at the
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