The Community Glue | Black Travel Across America

2m read

·Nov 10, 2024

The Five Points District in Denver, Colorado, has a legacy of African-American excellence. Long time business owners like Franklin and Maedella Stiger take pride in carrying that torch forward as the neighborhood changes.

The Frank and Miss Mae

Thank you so much for allowing me to come in here today. When people talk about Five Points, they always say, you have to come see the Stigers. And they've been. Loving you guys for the past 40 years, correct?

I've been here for 40 or better. And I serve the people well.

And so, over the past 40 years, how many people from the community did you employ here at the barbershop?

About three off and on, you know, and during my time. You had the natural and Jerry curl. Uh huh. And that's what brought the money in.

Miss Mae, you had a Jerry curl?

Yes. Did you have a Jerry curl? And an Afro! That was my natural.

Okay, that was your natural. But then too for the community, with the projects being over in Arapaho, the little kids would come in and said, Mr. Stiger, can I sweep the floor? Can I do this? You know, for lunch money. And he used to always have one or two of them, you know, come and help clean up the shop and give them money. And they would take that money and then work their school lunch money for the week. One of the kids turned out to be a doctor.

Wow.

Whenever he comes to Colorado, he comes to the shop.

I love that. I just love that you guys are such a staple in this community and you're still here.

I'm always looking for ways to support black businesses, but the Stigers remind me that it's not just about buying black. These small businesses are the foundation of their communities, creating the opportunities, role models, and healthy environments that for so much of American history, black people couldn't find elsewhere.

Go Behind The Scenes with Illustrator Christoph Niemann | National Geographic

What’s the most effective way to offset the depreciation of your jet?

View All

Finding zeros of polynomials (2 of 2) | Mathematics III | High School Math | Khan Academy

[Voiceover] In the last video, we factored this polynomial in order to find the real roots. We factored it by grouping, which essentially means doing the distributive property in reverse twice. I mentioned that there’s two ways you could do it. You could …

Consequences of Columbus's voyage on the Tainos and Europe

In the last video, we discussed Christopher Columbus’s attempt to find the funding to find a Western route around the world to China and the East, and how, although he didn’t find that, in October of 1492, he landed in the Caribbean, where he met the indi…

Sums and products of irrational numbers

Let’s say that we have some number A and to that we are going to add some number B, and that sum is going to be equal to C. Let’s say that we’re also told that both A and B are irrational. So based on the information that I’ve given you, A and B are both…

How To Terraform Venus (Quickly)

Leaving Earth to find new homes in space is an old dream of humanity and will sooner or later be necessary for our survival. The planet that gets the most attention is Mars, a small, toxic, and energy-poor planet that just about seems good enough for a co…

Life of Muhammad and beginnings of Islam part 1 | World History | Khan Academy

Now going to give an overview on the beginnings of Islam. Regardless of whether you are part of an Islamic culture, you are a practicing Muslim, or you believe in the Islamic Traditions, it’s valuable to learn about the beginnings of Islam because today n…

Campaign finance | Political participation | US government and civics | Khan Academy

Let’s talk a little bit about money in elections in the United States and the various actors that might be involved. You, of course, at the center of the action, have the various campaigns for the candidates. Then you have the party committees that will t…

The Community Glue | Black Travel Across America

More Articles