{"id":270891,"date":"2026-08-23T21:48:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T21:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/270891\/"},"modified":"2026-08-23T21:48:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T21:48:07","slug":"philadelphia-kids-provided-haircuts-before-first-day-of-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/270891\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia kids provided haircuts before first day of school"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? <a href=\"#Section1\">Let us know!<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>School begins Monday for more than 100,000 students in the Philadelphia School District, but before the first bell of the new school year sounds, a couple hundred kids got free haircuts at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.philaymca.org\/locations\/west-philadelphia-ymca?utm_source=Search&amp;utm_medium=ResponsiveAd&amp;utm_campaign=GoogleGrant&amp;utm_campaign=Mx2&amp;gad_source=1&amp;gad_campaignid=16639934588&amp;gbraid=0AAAAADgrQf98-bP5ctPtt5fz38UmMaorv&amp;gclid=CjwKCAjwtKrUBhAhEiwAr77Zoj5rrwy2eau6erEGxvHupE5lDtz1bIWVsbyBfkXrXg5s7IawQm04ExoCWvIQAvD_BwE\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">West Philadelphia YMCA<\/a> on Sunday.\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/barberswhocare.wordpress.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Barbers Who Care,<\/a> a local group that helps children improve self-esteem through haircuts, not only helped students with a fresh first-day look, but also set them up with school supplies and additional resources.\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/kduncangrooming\/?hl=en\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kenny Duncan<\/a>, the group\u2019s founder, said it was great to give back to students from his \u201cold stomping grounds.\u201d\n  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is where I was born and raised, and this is where I\u2019ve met a bunch of different mentors through the barbershop that helped raise me,\u201d said Duncan, who also owns <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/mainattractionunisexsalon\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Main Attraction Unisex Salon<\/a> and is the barber for several Sixers players.\n        <\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":270892,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[26414,223,69,71,70,23941],"class_list":["post-270891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-hair","tag-pennsylvania-education","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-philadelphia-schools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}