The Teacher Who Refused to Let Slavery Have the Last Word
Octavia V. Rogers Albert built The House of Bondage out of conversations—then dared to publish the country’s most inconvenient witnesses.
Where the Home Front Was Segregated
Before she was America’s oldest park ranger, Betty Reid Soskin was a Black woman navigating wartime labor, exclusion, and the paperwork of inequality.
The Crown Makers: Historic and Contemporary Black-Owned Milliners
The Crown Makers: Historic and Contemporary Black-Owned Milliners
The Candy Lady Was the System
Across Black America, a front-room business became a neighborhood’s smallest, steadiest institution—priced in quarters and governed by respect.
Before Douglass Spoke, Ruggles Opened the Door
When David Ruggles opened his bookshop and reading room in lower Manhattan in 1834, he was 24 years old and already tired of compromise.
Closing the Gate on King, History & Culture
Why the Trump administration ended free admission on MLK Day and Juneteenth—while adding the president’s birthday—and how conservative activists are reshaping the story of ci
The Cemetery Was Never Empty
A lawyer in Tampa, a historian in Portsmouth and a forensic anthropologist in Montana are part of a national effort to reclaim Black burial grounds the nation tried to forget.
Not Just ‘Tired’
rosaparks:Not JustTIRED How years of quiet rebellion led Rosa Parks to say no on a Montgomery bus, and yes to a dangerous new role Share fb tw ln pin fb tw ln pin By KOLUMN Magazin
Sidney Poitier at the Lincoln Memorial: How a Hollywood Icon Turned His Stardom Into Civil Rights Power at the 1963 March on Washington
Sidney poitier at the lincoln memorial HOW A HOLLYWOOD ICON TURNED HIS STARDOM INTO CIVIL RIGHTS POWER AT THE 1963 MARCH ON WASHINGTON Share fb tw ln pin fb tw ln pin By KOLUMN Mag
Panels Honoring Black WWII Soldiers Quietly Removed in the Netherlands, Prompting Outcry and Questions Over U.S. Policy Influence
PANELS HONORING BLACK WWII SOLDIERS QUIETLY REMOVED in the Netherlands, Prompting Outcry and Questions Over U.S. Policy Influence Two memorial panels honoring African American sold