The Allentown area changed in the five years Raheim Whitehurst was gone.
“I wasn’t seeing many people that I knew from before or anything like that,” he said. “But since I’ve been here over the year, man, I got to know most of the people on this block, the people that live upstairs. It’s like … I just feel a part of the community now, man.”
One year ago is when Whitehurst opened Imperial Cuts and Styles at 31 N. 12 St., revitalizing a location that had hosted a barber shop or beauty salon for decades – and giving himself a second chance after a young adulthood in and out of trouble…