Thirty Thousand Feet, and Still Segregated
Ruth Carol Taylor’s six months in the cabin exposed how airlines sold modernity while enforcing an old order—until one nurse from upstate New York insisted on being seen.
The Woman Called Mahogany
In 1975, Diana Ross turned a Hollywood melodrama into a fashion manifesto—one that still teaches America what Black ambition looks like when it refuses to whisper.
She Would Not Flinch
Gloria Richardson Dandridge led a local uprising on Maryland’s Eastern Shore that forced Washington to negotiate—and forced the movement to confront what “nonviolence” coul
Mother Hale’s Method
No lab coat, no credentials, no silver-bullet cure—just the radical idea that babies in crisis deserved gentleness, structure, and time.
A Rule Change, a Familiar Strategy
Trump’s crusade against mail voting relied on suspicion. The new USPS postmark standard could supply something more powerful: a technicality.
When Service Becomes Legacy
A KOLUMN Magazine remembrance of the public servants and activists lost in 2025, and the institutions they strengthened by refusing to look away.
Where the West Never Left
Kortnee Solomon came of age on the Bill Pickett Invitational Rodeo circuit, where Black America’s Western story has been preserved in plain sight—and now, at last, on-screen.
The Week After Christmas, the Work Begins
How Kwanzaa’s seven principles—born in 1966—became a recurring Black American practice for enduring backlash, scarcity, and political weather.
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.
Ralph Ellison’s “Invisible Man,” and the American Art of Looking Away
Invisible Man endures in American literature because it refuses the reader’s innocence. It suggests that invisibility is not only something that happens to a person. It is someth