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David Richmond: The Quiet Man at the Counter
How David Richmond helped ignite the Greensboro si
The Lesson George Dawson Carried Across a Century
George Dawson became famous as a literacy miracle,
Gloria Johnson-Powell Knew the Mind Was Political Terrain
Her life joined civil rights protest to child psyc
Milton Davis Built the Black Fantastic by Hand
Long before Black speculative fiction became a mar
Cheryl Derricotte Builds Memory Out of Glass
In Cheryl Derricotte’s hands, fragile materials
The Quiet Force of Richard W. Dempsey
Before institutions caught up, Dempsey had already
Dexter King: The Keeper of the Name
Dexter King spent much of his life doing work the
The Necessary Life of Alice Dunbar-Nelson
To read her only as Paul Laurence Dunbar’s widow
What Ruby Bridges Still Knows
America turned a first-grader into an icon, then s
John E. Dowell Jr.: The Visible and the Unsaid
Dowell Jr. has built a singular American practice—part printmaker’s discipline, part musician’s improvisation, part ancestral witness.
David Richmond: The Quiet Man at the Counter
How David Richmond helped ignite the Greensboro sit-ins, altered the grammar of protest in America, and paid a private price for a public act the nation still celebrates.
The Lesson George Dawson Carried Across a Century
George Dawson became famous as a literacy miracle, but his real significance lies deeper: in the precision of his memory, the force of his witness, and the unsettling plainness wit
Gloria Johnson-Powell Knew the Mind Was Political Terrain
Her life joined civil rights protest to child psychiatry, school desegregation to self-concept, and institutional prestige to a harder question: what does American racism do to a c
Milton Davis Built the Black Fantastic by Hand
Long before Black speculative fiction became a market category, Davis was writing, publishing, convening, and insisting that African-centered fantasy did not need permission to exi
Cheryl Derricotte Builds Memory Out of Glass
In Cheryl Derricotte’s hands, fragile materials become a hard argument about race, history, place, labor, and the Black lives America prefers to remember only in fragments.
The Quiet Force of Richard W. Dempsey
Before institutions caught up, Dempsey had already built a career across portraiture, travel, abstraction, and teaching, leaving behind a record that complicates how American art i
Dexter King: The Keeper of the Name
Dexter King spent much of his life doing work the public rarely romanticizes — licensing, litigating, preserving, clarifying, insisting — and in that unglamorous labor he helpe
The Necessary Life of Alice Dunbar-Nelson
To read her only as Paul Laurence Dunbar’s widow, or only as a Harlem Renaissance precursor, is to miss the scale of her work—and the urgency of her voice now.
What Ruby Bridges Still Knows
America turned a first-grader into an icon, then spent decades flattening her into a photograph. The real Ruby Bridges is a far more expansive figure: witness, activist, author, te
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.
