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The Painter Philadelphia Kept
Samuel Joseph Brown spent decades shaping Black vi
The Marriage That Threatened Jim Crow
Harriette and Harry T. Moore turned partnership in
A Bomb on Christmas Night, A Warning to a Movement
The assassination of Harry T. Moore and his wife,
They Voted Anyway
Barred from registrars’ offices and menaced by w
The Case They Built, Then Broke
As the Trump administration moves to drop charges
Coming of Age, Coming to Reckon
Anne Moody’s life was not a tidy redemption stor
The Man Who Walked Through Mississippi
How James Meredith forced the United States to dec
Before Integration, There Was Institution-Building
The Phoenix Society’s brief life in antebellum N
When Samuel L. Jackson Locked the Doors
Before he became one of the most recognizable acto
The Long Fight of Conrad Lynn
He was the first Black graduate of Syracuse Law, a
The Painter Philadelphia Kept
Samuel Joseph Brown spent decades shaping Black visual life in Philadelphia—as a watercolorist, printmaker, teacher, and institution-builder—even as national art history left h
The Marriage That Threatened Jim Crow
Harriette and Harry T. Moore turned partnership into political infrastructure in Florida—linking classrooms to court fights, voting drives to anti-lynching work, and private cour
A Bomb on Christmas Night, A Warning to a Movement
The assassination of Harry T. Moore and his wife, Harriette, was both a personal tragedy and a political message: Black organizing in the South would be answered with terror, espec
They Voted Anyway
Barred from registrars’ offices and menaced by white retaliation, Black Mississippians created their own election in 1963. What followed helped open the road to the Mississippi F
The Case They Built, Then Broke
As the Trump administration moves to drop charges against two Louisville officers tied to the warrant that led police to Breonna Taylor’s door, the question returns with force: w
Coming of Age, Coming to Reckon
Anne Moody’s life was not a tidy redemption story. It was a harder, more honest American narrative—one shaped by hunger, terror, courage, exhaustion, and an unblinking insisten
The Man Who Walked Through Mississippi
How James Meredith forced the United States to decide whether citizenship was real, and why his life still resists the tidy mythology of the civil rights era.
Before Integration, There Was Institution-Building
The Phoenix Society’s brief life in antebellum New York reveals how Black reformers pursued equality not only through protest, but by building schools, networks, and a public cul
When Samuel L. Jackson Locked the Doors
Before he became one of the most recognizable actors in the world, Jackson was a Morehouse student radicalized by grief, Black Power, and a campus he believed was failing its own m
The Long Fight of Conrad Lynn
He was the first Black graduate of Syracuse Law, a defender of radicals, and a legal strategist for people mainstream institutions would not touch.
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.
