BATON ROUGE – Inside Southern University, down a familiar hallway where footsteps echo and students pass each day, sits a barbershop that is much more than a place to get a haircut.
For more than 60 years, the Southern University campus barbershop has been a gathering space, a place of conversation, culture, and connection where young men come not just to look better, but often to feel better.
At the heart of that legacy is 81-year-old Robert Irvin Sr., who has been cutting hair at the barber shop for more than 61 years. His chair has seen generations of Southern students grow up, graduate, and move through life…