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Frank Calloway: The Man Who Drew the South From Memory
Frank Calloway spent decades inside Alabama’s me
The Fund That Built More Than Campuses
How the United Negro College Fund turned Black edu
John Henrik Clarke’s Long War Against Historical Amnesia
The self-trained historian from Alabama helped bui
Elijah McCoy: The Man Who Kept the Machine Moving
How McCoy turned lubrication into an industrial br
Bebe Moore Campbell Knew the Cost of Silence
She wrote about race, class, family and mental ill
Cicely Carew: What Joy Looks Like in Three Dimensions
The Boston-based artist has built a career on imme
Lincoln Ragsdale’s War After the War
He trained to fight fascism from the sky. In Phoen
Max Robinson Knew the News Was Never Neutral
His life changed American television. His battles
Pauline Powell Burns: The First Exhibition Was Also an Argument
Burns’s 1890 showing in San Francisco was more t
Sarah Willie Layton and the Architecture of Black Women’s Power
Her name is not as widely known as some of her pee
Frank Calloway: The Man Who Drew the South From Memory
Frank Calloway spent decades inside Alabama’s mental-health system. Then, with crayon, pen, marker, and butcher paper, he built an epic visual record of Black rural memory.
The Fund That Built More Than Campuses
How the United Negro College Fund turned Black educational exclusion into one of the most durable institutions of American possibility.
John Henrik Clarke’s Long War Against Historical Amnesia
The self-trained historian from Alabama helped build Africana Studies by insisting that Africa belonged at the center of world history.
Elijah McCoy: The Man Who Kept the Machine Moving
How McCoy turned lubrication into an industrial breakthrough—and became a legend inside the language of American originality.
Bebe Moore Campbell Knew the Cost of Silence
She wrote about race, class, family and mental illness with unusual intimacy — and helped force a country to talk about what Black families were too often expected to carry alone
Cicely Carew: What Joy Looks Like in Three Dimensions
The Boston-based artist has built a career on immersive environments that feel floral, spiritual, improvisational, and insistently alive.
Lincoln Ragsdale’s War After the War
He trained to fight fascism from the sky. In Phoenix, he found another battlefield: schools, neighborhoods, jobs, and the right to belong.
Max Robinson Knew the News Was Never Neutral
His life changed American television. His battles revealed how much the industry still feared Black authority.
Pauline Powell Burns: The First Exhibition Was Also an Argument
Burns’s 1890 showing in San Francisco was more than an art-world footnote. It was a claim on beauty, authorship and Black presence in the American West.
Sarah Willie Layton and the Architecture of Black Women’s Power
Her name is not as widely known as some of her peers, but her work helped turn Black Baptist women into one of the most formidable civic forces in American public life.
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.
Business
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
Art
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.
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