‘You Know We’re Going to Bring Flavor to What We Do’: Demands for More Black Santas Inspire North Carolina Man to Launch ‘Santas Just Like Me’
“I’m looking for the beard, but I’m also foremost looking for the spirit,” said Stafford Braxton, founder of Santas Just Like Me, an organization that recruits and hires Black Santas for holiday events and photo-ops. Braxton, 61, of Huntersville, North Carolina, just north of Charlotte, launched his Santas Just Like Me business in 2013, and…