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Ed Bullins Wrote Black America Without Asking Permission
The playwright of In the Wine Time and The Taking
He Painted What History Likes to Lose
William Pleasant Jr.’s art chronicled Gullah Gee
When Reading Became Civil Disobedience
The Tougaloo Nine’s 1961 sit-in at the Jackson P
Before Harlem Was a Renaissance, There Was Will Marion Cook
Long before the era had a name, Cook was connectin
Lucy Parsons and the American Memory
She was surveilled, caricatured, erased, and still
Calvin Burnett’s Boston
Before diversity statements and institutional reck
Rosa Parks, After Montgomery
After Montgomery, she lost work, left Alabama, reb
The Quiet Force of Robert Parris Moses
He did not chase the spotlight. He built power whe
She Sculpted a Nation’s Memory
From North Carolina clay to Harlem studios, from w
He Did Not Go for Glory
Long overshadowed by John Brown, Dangerfield Newby
Ed Bullins Wrote Black America Without Asking Permission
The playwright of In the Wine Time and The Taking of Miss Janie helped remake American theater by insisting that Black life, in all its beauty and damage, belonged at the center of
He Painted What History Likes to Lose
William Pleasant Jr.’s art chronicled Gullah Geechee life, neighborhood memory, and the texture of Black Savannah, even as broader art history left him at the margins.
When Reading Became Civil Disobedience
The Tougaloo Nine’s 1961 sit-in at the Jackson Public Library was small in scale, radical in implication, and far larger in consequence than history has often allowed.
Before Harlem Was a Renaissance, There Was Will Marion Cook
Long before the era had a name, Cook was connecting spirituals, ragtime, Black theater, and orchestral ambition into a distinctly American sound.
Lucy Parsons and the American Memory
She was surveilled, caricatured, erased, and still impossible to contain: a labor organizer whose life linked slavery, Reconstruction, Haymarket, and the unfinished fight over who
Calvin Burnett’s Boston
Before diversity statements and institutional reckonings, Burnett was already making the case—in classrooms, prints, and practice—that Black art belonged at the center.
Rosa Parks, After Montgomery
After Montgomery, she lost work, left Alabama, rebuilt in Detroit and kept organizing—through Black Power, anti-apartheid activism and youth education.
The Quiet Force of Robert Parris Moses
He did not chase the spotlight. He built power where America had tried to erase it—first in Mississippi’s Black communities, then in classrooms where he argued that math, too,
She Sculpted a Nation’s Memory
From North Carolina clay to Harlem studios, from wartime service to Pittsburgh classrooms, Selma Burke built a career around a radical proposition: that beauty, dignity, and histor
He Did Not Go for Glory
Long overshadowed by John Brown, Dangerfield Newby joined the raid on Harpers Ferry with a motive at once political and painfully private: to break slavery because slavery would no
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.
