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The Strange Afterlife of Sarah Farro’s True Love
Sarah Farro’s only known novel was praised, dism
James Peck Was Beaten Bloody in Birmingham. That Was Not the Beginning
Before James Peck became the white face of Freedom
James Orange and the Architecture of Courage
Orange turned nonviolence into discipline, youth w
Jefferson Pinder’s Long Run Through American Memory
Across film, sculpture and punishing performance,
Ronald L. Fair Refused to Let America Breathe Easy
Before “Cornbread, Earl and Me,” before viral
Amzie Moore Knew the Vote Was the Key
A post office worker, businessman, veteran, and or
John Berry Meachum Knew Freedom Needed Infrastructure
Before emancipation, he built a church, a school,
Howardena Pindell: The Witness in the Studio
Pindell made abstraction shimmer, then forced the
William Stanley Braithwaite and the Architecture of Taste
Printer, poet, editor, anthologist, professor: his
The Road That Refused Jim Crow
Bayard Rustin, George Houser and fourteen other ri
The Strange Afterlife of Sarah Farro’s True Love
Sarah Farro’s only known novel was praised, dismissed, exhibited at the World’s Fair, then lost to history. Its rediscovery widened the map of African American literature.
James Peck Was Beaten Bloody in Birmingham. That Was Not the Beginning
Before James Peck became the white face of Freedom Ride brutality, he had already been jailed as a pacifist, organized seamen and helped invent the direct-action grammar of the civ
James Orange and the Architecture of Courage
Orange turned nonviolence into discipline, youth work into strategy, and civil rights into a lifelong campaign for labor, memory and Black political power.
Jefferson Pinder’s Long Run Through American Memory
Across film, sculpture and punishing performance, the artist asks what the Black body has been forced to carry—and what it can still transform.
Ronald L. Fair Refused to Let America Breathe Easy
Before “Cornbread, Earl and Me,” before viral police videos, Fair wrote the machinery of racial power in plain sight.
Amzie Moore Knew the Vote Was the Key
A post office worker, businessman, veteran, and organizer, he helped turn Mississippi’s Black freedom struggle into a campaign that could no longer be ignored.
John Berry Meachum Knew Freedom Needed Infrastructure
Before emancipation, he built a church, a school, a business, and an escape route—then forced Missouri’s racial order to chase him onto the river.
Howardena Pindell: The Witness in the Studio
Pindell made abstraction shimmer, then forced the art world to answer for who it erased.
William Stanley Braithwaite and the Architecture of Taste
Printer, poet, editor, anthologist, professor: his life shows how Black literary power often worked through the margins of institutions.
The Road That Refused Jim Crow
Bayard Rustin, George Houser and fourteen other riders turned interstate buses into moving courtrooms, forcing the South to answer a simple question: would the law be obeyed?
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.
History
