Featured stories—Trending
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
He Was There Before the Cameras
Long before Montgomery became shorthand for a new
The Poet Who Heard the People First
Long before Black Studies became an academic field
The Many Lives of Palmer Hayden
How a self-taught painter from Virginia moved thro
Nellie B. Nicholson and the Quiet Architecture of Power
She was a teacher, suffragist, clubwoman, and inst
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
He Was There Before the Cameras
Long before Montgomery became shorthand for a new America, E. D. Nixon was organizing workers, challenging white power, and preparing Black Alabamians to fight back.
The Poet Who Heard the People First
Long before Black Studies became an academic field, Sterling A. Brown was treating ordinary Black life as archive, art form, and national truth.
The Many Lives of Palmer Hayden
How a self-taught painter from Virginia moved through war, labor, Paris, Harlem, folklore, and controversy to build one of the most complicated visual records of Black American lif
Nellie B. Nicholson and the Quiet Architecture of Power
She was a teacher, suffragist, clubwoman, and institution-builder whose work in Wilmington helped Black women claim the ballot long before the nation was ready to honor 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.
