On Friday, Beyonc\u00e9 spoke in downtown Brooklyn, New York, at the Phoenix House, a nonprofit recovery center for drug and alcohol addiction, to unveil a project she and her mother, Tina, have dreamed of and worked on for years: the Beyonc\u00e9 Cosmetology Center.<\/p>\n
According to the press release, the program is “a seven-month cosmetology training course for adult men and women.” L’Or\u00e9al has donated all the products to be used at the center, and their spokeswoman Beyonc\u00e9, along with her mother, have pledged to donate $100,000 annually. <\/p>\n
After brief remarks by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Tina Knowles, among others, Beyonc\u00e9 graciously took to the podium to explain both her ties to the house \u2014 she first visited in 2007 as part of research for her role as Etta James in “Cadillac Records” \u2014 and her hopes for the program. While Phoenix House provides varied vocational training, “I felt like they needed something that was geared towards women \u2014 something that would teach them skills that would give them hope even after the Phoenix House,” Beyonc\u00e9 explained about why she chose to fund a beauty school. Her mother also owned and operated a salon in Knowles’ hometown of Houston.<\/p>\n “I saw that a salon was a place for women to socialize, share stories, cry, laugh and get advice,” she continued about her experiences growing up around a beauty parlor. She was close to tears as she added, “Most importantly, I saw the joy it brought my mother, knowing she was a part of their transformation.”<\/p>\n B admired the strength of the women and men who’ve chosen to go to Phoenix House, citing the stigma placed on the disease of drug and alcohol abuse, and that while none of them chose to be addicts, they have all “chosen to get better.” As the speech ended and a brief set of photo ops \u2014 including the cutting of a ceremonial ribbon \u2014 began, Beyonc\u00e9 took to the microphone one last time. “It’s a very proud day for me and my mother,” she beamed. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On Friday, Beyonc\u00e9 spoke in downtown Brooklyn, New York, at the Phoenix House, a nonprofit recovery center for drug and alcohol addiction, to unveil a project she and her mother, Tina, have dreamed of and worked on for years: the Beyonc\u00e9 Cosmetology Center. According to the press release, the program is “a seven-month cosmetology training […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-396150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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