BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WBRC) – Inside Etheridge Beauty Salon and Etheridge Barbershop in downtown Birmingham Friday, chairs were full of clients waiting for get their hairdos and fades for Magic City Classic Saturday, which also happened to be Halloween.
The Classic wrapped up a week of events tied to the annual matchup of historically Black universities Alabama State and Alabama A&M at Legion Field.
But as salon owner Wilma Moore and her stylists tended to customers in Halloween costumes, the idea that voters might go ghost at the polls on election day and miss the opportunity to address serious issues was a concern…