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The Necessary Life of Alice Dunbar-Nelson
To read her only as Paul Laurence Dunbar’s widow
What Ruby Bridges Still Knows
America turned a first-grader into an icon, then s
The Strategist in the Shadows
James Bevel helped design the moral theater of the
What Soffiyah Elijah Knows About Power, Punishment, and Survival
From Harlem courtrooms to Harvard classrooms to pr
Harold Cruse Knew the Problem Was Never Only Politics
The fiercest mind behind The Crisis of the Negro I
The Artist History Almost Lost
Nadine M. DeLawrence built a body of work from alu
The Woman Who Turned Citizenship Into Power
Often overshadowed in popular memory, Dorothy Cott
Remember Fort Pillow
The cry that followed the 1864 massacre of Union t
Annie Lee Cooper: Absolutely Fearless
Annie Lee Cooper is often remembered for one blow
Ronald Reagan’s Racist Depiction of African UN Delegates as “Monkeys”
When a 2019 release exposed Ronald Reagan calling
The Necessary Life of Alice Dunbar-Nelson
To read her only as Paul Laurence Dunbar’s widow, or only as a Harlem Renaissance precursor, is to miss the scale of her work—and the urgency of her voice now.
What Ruby Bridges Still Knows
America turned a first-grader into an icon, then spent decades flattening her into a photograph. The real Ruby Bridges is a far more expansive figure: witness, activist, author, te
The Strategist in the Shadows
James Bevel helped design the moral theater of the civil rights movement—Birmingham, Selma, Chicago—yet history remembers him less cleanly than the campaigns he helped set in m
What Soffiyah Elijah Knows About Power, Punishment, and Survival
From Harlem courtrooms to Harvard classrooms to prison-advocacy campaigns in New York, Elijah has built a politics of accountability rooted in dignity, memory, and family.
Harold Cruse Knew the Problem Was Never Only Politics
The fiercest mind behind The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual argued that Black freedom required more than protest. It required ownership, institutions, cultural power, and a ruthl
The Artist History Almost Lost
Nadine M. DeLawrence built a body of work from aluminum, myth, and ancestral charge. The museums kept some of it. The culture still owes her the fuller story.
The Woman Who Turned Citizenship Into Power
Often overshadowed in popular memory, Dorothy Cotton helped transform the Southern freedom struggle by teaching people not only how to resist, but how to govern themselves as citiz
Remember Fort Pillow
The cry that followed the 1864 massacre of Union troops in Tennessee was more than wartime propaganda. It became a warning, a vow, and a measure of how deeply white supremacy shape
Annie Lee Cooper: Absolutely Fearless
Annie Lee Cooper is often remembered for one blow in Selma. Her real legacy is the stubborn, disciplined insistence that democracy include Black people, too.
Ronald Reagan’s Racist Depiction of African UN Delegates as “Monkeys”
When a 2019 release exposed Ronald Reagan calling African U.N. delegates “monkeys,” it did more than stain a legacy. It revealed how closed-door racism and public power moved t
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.
