{"id":494052,"date":"2026-02-23T12:21:46","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T12:21:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/494052\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T12:21:46","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T12:21:46","slug":"how-this-beauty-supply-store-became-a-hub-for-surreys-black-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/494052\/","title":{"rendered":"How this beauty supply store became a hub for Surrey&#8217;s Black community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/a\/assets\/texttospeech.svg\" alt=\"Text to Speech Icon\" width=\"44\" height=\"44\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Listen to this article<\/p>\n<p>Estimated 1 minute<\/p>\n<p>The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results.<\/p>\n<p>When Janice Davis came to Canada from Jamaica at age 11, she says there wasn&#8217;t really anywhere for her to interact with her community. <\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s why she&#8217;s turned her business into a place where people can gather, meet others and connect to their culture. <\/p>\n<p>Her shop, Royals Beauty, is a beauty supply store, a salon, a take-out jerk spot and a place where people come to play games, watch sports and hang out with friends. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The community just accepts me and loves me and I just keep on going, and I become a safe haven for people,&#8221; she told CBC&#8217;s Sia Foryoh. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"A woman wearing a black top smiles\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1771849306_127_default.jpg\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.7777777777777777\" data-cy=\"image-img\"\/>Janice Davis, the founder of Royals in Surrey, B.C. (CBC)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If it wasn&#8217;t for the community, I would not be here.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Davis says people have found job opportunities and even met their future spouses at Royals.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;I think having this place saves and helps a lot of people.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 1 minute The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":494053,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[49,48,87674],"class_list":["post-494052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-surrey","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-surrey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=494052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/494053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}