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The Work Was the Message
For more than half a century, Xernona Clayton help
The Teacher Who Wrote Against the Script
Before the Harlem Renaissance had a name, Joseph S
Grief, Witness, and the Long Arc of Justice
How Fannie Lee Chaney transformed personal loss in
The Intimate Vastness of Njideka Akunyili Crosby
In paintings built from photographs, pattern, and
The Price of Being Needed Everywhere
Christine Michel Carter’s work sits at the cross
Archibald Carey Jr. and the Art of American Pressure
Minister, lawyer, alderman, Republican insider, ci
What Ernest Crichlow Saw
From Depression-era printmaking to civil-rights-er
What Happened at Colfax
An Easter Sunday massacre in Reconstruction Louisi
The Woman Whose Name Changed the Law
How Aurelia Browder helped break Montgomery’s bu
J. California Cooper and the Art of Saying It Plain
Long before the literary world fully learned how t
The Work Was the Message
For more than half a century, Xernona Clayton helped shape the civil rights movement, Southern television, and the public story Black America tells about itself.
Grief, Witness, and the Long Arc of Justice
How Fannie Lee Chaney transformed personal loss into moral authority in the aftermath of one of the Civil Rights Movement’s darkest moments.
The Intimate Vastness of Njideka Akunyili Crosby
In paintings built from photographs, pattern, and recollection, the Nigerian-born, Los Angeles–based artist remaps what identity can look like.
The Price of Being Needed Everywhere
Christine Michel Carter’s work sits at the crossroads of Black maternal health, workplace inequity, mental health, and the American habit of calling structural failure “resilie
Archibald Carey Jr. and the Art of American Pressure
Minister, lawyer, alderman, Republican insider, civil-rights strategist: he worked the pulpit, the courtroom, and the state to push a segregated nation toward its own ideals.
What Ernest Crichlow Saw
From Depression-era printmaking to civil-rights-era symbolism, Crichlow built an artistic language of witness, one rooted in Brooklyn, sharpened by injustice, and sustained by comm
What Happened at Colfax
An Easter Sunday massacre in Reconstruction Louisiana did more than destroy a courthouse standoff. It helped clear the legal and political path for white supremacist rule in the So
The Woman Whose Name Changed the Law
How Aurelia Browder helped break Montgomery’s bus segregation system, why her case mattered as much as the boycott, and why history has too often treated her as a footnote instea
J. California Cooper and the Art of Saying It Plain
Long before the literary world fully learned how to value intimacy, oral tradition, and Black women’s interior lives, Cooper was already building a universe out of them.
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.
