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The First Classroom Was the Struggle
Sarah Jane Woodson Early helped invent a tradition
How Nina Chanel Abney Learned to Paint the Noise
Her pictures are bright enough to seduce, sharp en
Hallie Quinn Brown and the Long Sound of Black Freedom
She was an orator, educator, suffragist, instituti
David Bradley and The Novel That Went Underground
Before “the archive” became a cultural keyword
Elenora “Rukiya” Brown Beaded Survival Into Form
How Elenora “Rukiya” Brown turned dolls, quilt
Arna Bontemps Kept Black Literature From Vanishing
Bontemps is usually remembered as a Harlem Renaiss
Irene Morgan and the Law of Refusal
Long before segregation’s most famous bus rebell
What America Took From Louise Little
Her life moved from Grenada to Montreal to the Ame
Fred Gray and the Law of Black Survival
From Rosa Parks and Claudette Colvin to the men ab
Before the Civil Rights Movement Had a Name, There Was Octavius V. Catto
Teacher, athlete, organizer, military officer, and
The First Classroom Was the Struggle
Sarah Jane Woodson Early helped invent a tradition of Black female intellectual leadership in America, then spent a lifetime building the schools, speeches, and civic networks that
How Nina Chanel Abney Learned to Paint the Noise
Her pictures are bright enough to seduce, sharp enough to indict, and complicated enough to refuse easy moral comfort. That tension is precisely what has made Abney one of the defi
Hallie Quinn Brown and the Long Sound of Black Freedom
She was an orator, educator, suffragist, institution builder, and archivist of Black women’s greatness. America remembers fragments of her life. It has not yet reckoned with the
David Bradley and The Novel That Went Underground
Before “the archive” became a cultural keyword, David Bradley built a masterpiece around what Black families knew, what official history buried, and what America still refuses
Elenora “Rukiya” Brown Beaded Survival Into Form
How Elenora “Rukiya” Brown turned dolls, quilts, and Mardi Gras Indian suits into a living archive of Black, Indigenous, and New Orleans memory.
Arna Bontemps Kept Black Literature From Vanishing
Bontemps is usually remembered as a Harlem Renaissance writer. He should also be remembered as one of the crucial figures who preserved Black literary memory for generations that c
Irene Morgan and the Law of Refusal
Long before segregation’s most famous bus rebellion entered the national canon, Morgan turned personal defiance into constitutional crisis—and changed interstate travel in Amer
What America Took From Louise Little
Her life moved from Grenada to Montreal to the American Midwest, through Garveyism, widowhood, welfare surveillance, and psychiatric confinement—and in doing so, illuminated the
Fred Gray and the Law of Black Survival
From Rosa Parks and Claudette Colvin to the men abused by the Tuskegee Syphilis Study, Gray spent seven decades forcing American law to confront the harms it had long protected.
Before the Civil Rights Movement Had a Name, There Was Octavius V. Catto
Teacher, athlete, organizer, military officer, and voting-rights crusader, Catto understood that freedom without power was only a new mask for the old order.
How New Yorker Howard Bennet fought to make Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday a national holiday
On April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. was shot as he stood on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. This ended the life of one of the 20th century’s most revered and influential figures.
How New Yorker Howard Bennet fought to make Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday a national holiday
On April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. was shot as he stood on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. This ended the life of one of the 20th century’s most revered and influential figures.
Business
Black entpreneurs and business leaders who help shape and drive our economies.
Where the Neighborhood Reads Aloud
Uncle Bobbie’s Coffee & Books is a Germantown storefront built like a living room—part café, part bookstore, part civic commons—where Marc Lamont Hill’s public intellectua
The Hot Dog Gospel In OKC
Monte’s Gourmet Dogs serves friendship first—and then, if you’re lucky, the best gator étouffée you didn’t know you needed.
The Crown Makers: Historic and Contemporary Black-Owned Milliners
The Crown Makers: Historic and Contemporary Black-Owned Milliners
Rooms of Our Own
Black hoteliers across the United States are quietly remaking the hospitality industry—one Brooklyn brownstone, Virginia horse farm and Mississippi inn at a time.
Brewing Black Futures: How Five Black-Owned Cafés Are Redefining American Coffee Culture
From Oakland to Chicago, these entrepreneurs are stitching community, culture and commerce into every latte — proving that for many Black business owners, a café is more than ju
Inside the Quiet Dismantling of America’s Only Minority-Business Agency — and the Entrepreneurs Left Stranded
The Quiet Dismantling of America’s Only Minority-Business Agency AND the Entrepreneurs Left Stranded Share fb tw ln pin fb tw ln pin By KOLUMN Magazine The first sign that someth
Where the Neighborhood Reads Aloud
Uncle Bobbie’s Coffee & Books is a Germantown storefront built like a living room—part café, part bookstore, part civic commons—where Marc Lamont Hill’s public intellectua
The Hot Dog Gospel In OKC
Monte’s Gourmet Dogs serves friendship first—and then, if you’re lucky, the best gator étouffée you didn’t know you needed.
The Crown Makers: Historic and Contemporary Black-Owned Milliners
The Crown Makers: Historic and Contemporary Black-Owned Milliners
Rooms of Our Own
Black hoteliers across the United States are quietly remaking the hospitality industry—one Brooklyn brownstone, Virginia horse farm and Mississippi inn at a time.
Brewing Black Futures: How Five Black-Owned Cafés Are Redefining American Coffee Culture
From Oakland to Chicago, these entrepreneurs are stitching community, culture and commerce into every latte — proving that for many Black business owners, a café is more than ju
Inside the Quiet Dismantling of America’s Only Minority-Business Agency — and the Entrepreneurs Left Stranded
The Quiet Dismantling of America’s Only Minority-Business Agency AND the Entrepreneurs Left Stranded Share fb tw ln pin fb tw ln pin By KOLUMN Magazine The first sign that someth
Art
This month, the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) in Montgomery is recognizing Claudette Colvin in visual fashion through its acquisition of “Rooted”, an artistic tribute to the civil rights pioneer by Traci Mims, the talented multi-genre artist represented by Black Art in America.
History
