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Wanda Coleman Knew What Los Angeles Was Made Of
The poet, critic, performer and chronicler of work
Roy Wilkins and the Politics of Staying Power
For more than four decades at the NAACP, Wilkins p
The Threads That Bind Sonya Clark
Across three decades of work, the artist has trans
Cornel West’s Unfinished Argument With America
From Race Matters to the 2024 campaign, West has k
A Strategist in the Pulpit
To understand Wyatt Tee Walker is to understand th
Claude Clark Painted a Black World Too Often Left Unseen
Across Philadelphia, Talladega, and Oakland, the a
Ta-Nehisi Coates and the American Ledger
Across memoir, reportage, criticism, and comics, t
Before History Smoothed the Edges, There Was C.T. Vivian
A preacher with a strategist’s mind and a street
Lucille Clifton Made the Small Poem Vast
How a poet of startling brevity rewrote the possib
Samuel Wilbert Tucker and the Quiet Architecture of Freedom
He was not the movement’s loudest public figure.
Wanda Coleman Knew What Los Angeles Was Made Of
The poet, critic, performer and chronicler of working-class Black life turned the city’s noise, hunger, danger and desire into one of the fiercest bodies of literature America pr
Roy Wilkins and the Politics of Staying Power
For more than four decades at the NAACP, Wilkins proved that persistence, coalition-building, and legal pressure could be as revolutionary as protest.
The Threads That Bind Sonya Clark
Across three decades of work, the artist has transformed humble materials into arguments about Blackness, nationhood, ancestry, and what American history still refuses to face.
Cornel West’s Unfinished Argument With America
From Race Matters to the 2024 campaign, West has kept pressing the same question: what does justice require from a nation that keeps mistaking success for virtue?
A Strategist in the Pulpit
To understand Wyatt Tee Walker is to understand that the civil rights movement ran on more than speeches and symbols. It also ran on discipline, logistics, theology, and nerve.
Claude Clark Painted a Black World Too Often Left Unseen
Across Philadelphia, Talladega, and Oakland, the artist turned everyday Black life into modern American history—using thick paint, hard-won conviction, and a belief that art shou
Ta-Nehisi Coates and the American Ledger
Across memoir, reportage, criticism, and comics, the author has spent two decades forcing the country to confront what it owes, what it remembers, and what it still refuses to see.
Before History Smoothed the Edges, There Was C.T. Vivian
A preacher with a strategist’s mind and a street fighter’s nerve, Vivian helped define the civil-rights movement not as a pageant of heroes, but as a sustained practice of pres
Lucille Clifton Made the Small Poem Vast
How a poet of startling brevity rewrote the possibilities of Black womanhood, family memory, survival, and American lyric speech.
Samuel Wilbert Tucker and the Quiet Architecture of Freedom
He was not the movement’s loudest public figure. He may have been one of its most consequential legal strategists — a lawyer who turned local indignities into constitutional pr
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.
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
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.
