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When Christine Turner and John Hoffman set out to make a film about America’s debilitating racial wealth gap, they found an inspiring story in Arlo Washington, running both a barber college and a nonprofit loan fund called People Trust out of the same Little Rock parking lot.

But James Thomas, owner of Williams Barber College in Fort Worth, has been shaken by the emergence of the new variant, which he sees as a threat to him and his business.

In 2016, Rivera and his correctional officer while in prison, Bobby Mattison, opened their first barber college, but it closed down last year amid the pandemic.

Anyone can enroll in the Legacy Barber College.

“As a barber, people listen to our advice a lot, and the training just brought that out more,” said Antonio Wiggins, who cuts hair and teaches at the Trendsetters Barber College in Jackson, Miss. “I didn’t even realize I was helping people mentally and how important that was.”