Inside Downtown L.A.'s Neihule Salon

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What can you learn about a community from its hair salon aside from gossip? Does hair tell stories? Meghan Farnsworth takes an almost anthropological approach to these questions, creating a fascinating Sound Portrait of three stylists at Neihule Salon in Downtown LA — one of the city's rare establishments whose clients are black, white and brown.