Black barbershop owners are divided over coronavirus social distancing, which threatens to destroy their livelihoods

Black barbers across America are engaging in a heated debate over whether cities and states should lift coronavirus social distancing mandates that have forced many of their businesses to close indefinitely.

African Americans as a group are suffering the most during the Covid-19 pandemic, with higher infection and mortality rates than the general population. Barbers say black business owners, like many of them, are also disproportionately hurting financially from government shutdowns meant to stem the virus' spread.Several shop owners said they can't afford to remain closed much longer. In African-American culture, barbershops are much more than places to get a haircut.

"You going to die from infection or you going to die from starvation?"Independent contractorsIn places like New York, where the number of coronavirus cases has exploded since February, government leaders have ordered personal care businesses, including barbershops and beauty salons, to close indefinitely amid shelter-in-place guidelines designed to limit the disease's spread.

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