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The Precinct Trap
Dallas and Williamson Counties spent years making
Columbia’s Forgotten Flashpoint
Sarah Mae Flemming’s name rarely makes the canon
Pleasure and Leisure Policed
The story of “Black Coney Island” isn’t only
After the Ballots, the Movement
Jasmine Crockett’s Senate campaign ended in defe
The Light Henry Ossawa Tanner Found
From Philadelphia’s constraints to Paris’s sal
In the Brightest Light
John Johnson’s high-contrast photographs insist
The Price of a Desk
The Little Rock Nine paid in terror, loneliness, a
The Brother Who Wouldn’t Whisper
Medgar Evers became a martyr. Charles became an op
The Fugitive’s Voice
Before emancipation was law, Henry Bibb treated it
The Eminent Colored Men
The “Eminent Colored Men” series made portrait
The Precinct Trap
Dallas and Williamson Counties spent years making voting simpler. Then, on primary day, Republican-led rule changes sent Democratic voters hunting for the “right” polling place
Columbia’s Forgotten Flashpoint
Sarah Mae Flemming’s name rarely makes the canon. Her case helped write it.
Pleasure and Leisure Policed
The story of “Black Coney Island” isn’t only about a canceled amusement park—it’s about how Black leisure has been regulated, displaced, and renamed across American shore
After the Ballots, the Movement
Jasmine Crockett’s Senate campaign ended in defeat. The coalition she helped activate—and the voting-access fight she amplified—should outlast the race that produced it.
The Light Henry Ossawa Tanner Found
From Philadelphia’s constraints to Paris’s salons, Tanner turned illumination into a theology—and dignity into a method
In the Brightest Light
John Johnson’s high-contrast photographs insist on something radical for their time: Black people pictured as they wished to be known.
The Price of a Desk
The Little Rock Nine paid in terror, loneliness, and a stolen adolescence—so the rest of the country could pretend school desegregation was inevitable.
The Brother Who Wouldn’t Whisper
Medgar Evers became a martyr. Charles became an operator: organizing boycotts, registering voters and daring Mississippi to prosecute him for trying.
The Fugitive’s Voice
Before emancipation was law, Henry Bibb treated it as practice: publish the truth, organize migration, and dare the nation to answer.
The Eminent Colored Men
The “Eminent Colored Men” series made portraiture portable at the very moment Reconstruction’s promises were being dismantled—and used new industrial imaging to argue for o
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.
