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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.
Bryan Stevenson and the Long Work of Repair
From courtrooms in Alabama to memorial grounds in
The Fire on Maiden Lane
In 1712, enslaved Africans in New York launched on
The Man Behind the Lens
How Don Hogan Charles photographed Black America w
The Long Argument of Anna Julia Cooper
From slavery to the Sorbonne, from Washington clas
Tomorrow Belongs to Us
Louis E. Burnham spent two decades writing and org
C.K. Steele and the Freedom Infrastructure of the South
Long before his name was cast in bronze at a Talla
What Nina Simone Left Us
Her last studio album did not try to recreate the
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
Bryan Stevenson and the Long Work of Repair
From courtrooms in Alabama to memorial grounds in Montgomery, the activist-lawyer has built a career around a difficult proposition: that accountability without humanity is not jus
The Fire on Maiden Lane
In 1712, enslaved Africans in New York launched one of the earliest recorded urban revolts in British North America. The uprising was brief, the repression was savage, and the lega
The Man Behind the Lens
How Don Hogan Charles photographed Black America with intimacy, rigor, and a refusal to look away.
The Long Argument of Anna Julia Cooper
From slavery to the Sorbonne, from Washington classrooms to Black feminist thought, her life made a case the nation is still catching up to.
Mavis Staples and the Sound of Endurance
Her voice helped score the movement, define soul’s conscience, and remind generation after generation that joy and struggle have always traveled together.
Tomorrow Belongs to Us
Louis E. Burnham spent two decades writing and organizing toward a new world; his sudden death in 1960 turned a working life into a legend—and a question about what history forge
C.K. Steele and the Freedom Infrastructure of the South
Long before his name was cast in bronze at a Tallahassee bus terminal, Charles Kenzie Steele was building the institutions, language, and resolve that made protest durable.
What Nina Simone Left Us
Her last studio album did not try to recreate the fire of the 1960s. It did something rarer: it let Nina Simone sound like a legend still working, still testing language, still ref
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.
