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Pauline Powell Burns: The First Exhibition Was Also an Argument
Burns’s 1890 showing in San Francisco was more t
Sarah Willie Layton and the Architecture of Black Women’s Power
Her name is not as widely known as some of her pee
The Campus Said No
At South Carolina State, students forced a commenc
David Driskell and the Long Argument for Black Memory
Across canvas, collage, scholarship, and curation,
What Tananarive Due Understands About American Darkness
Her fiction does not use horror to flee history. I
When the Target Was Obama, the Alarm Was Quieter
The record of threats against Barack Obama reveals
The First Classroom Was the Struggle
Sarah Jane Woodson Early helped invent a tradition
How Nina Chanel Abney Learned to Paint the Noise
Her pictures are bright enough to seduce, sharp en
Hallie Quinn Brown and the Long Sound of Black Freedom
She was an orator, educator, suffragist, instituti
David Bradley and The Novel That Went Underground
Before “the archive” became a cultural keyword
Pauline Powell Burns: The First Exhibition Was Also an Argument
Burns’s 1890 showing in San Francisco was more than an art-world footnote. It was a claim on beauty, authorship and Black presence in the American West.
Sarah Willie Layton and the Architecture of Black Women’s Power
Her name is not as widely known as some of her peers, but her work helped turn Black Baptist women into one of the most formidable civic forces in American public life.
The Campus Said No
At South Carolina State, students forced a commencement reversal — and revived an old HBCU tradition: refusing public honors to politicians whose power does not protect Black lif
David Driskell and the Long Argument for Black Memory
Across canvas, collage, scholarship, and curation, Driskell made a life’s work of showing that African American art was never a footnote. It was always foundational.
What Tananarive Due Understands About American Darkness
Her fiction does not use horror to flee history. It uses horror to force history to speak. That is why her work feels prophetic now.
When the Target Was Obama, the Alarm Was Quieter
The record of threats against Barack Obama reveals a country fluent in condemning political violence—except when racial power is part of the motive.
The First Classroom Was the Struggle
Sarah Jane Woodson Early helped invent a tradition of Black female intellectual leadership in America, then spent a lifetime building the schools, speeches, and civic networks that
How Nina Chanel Abney Learned to Paint the Noise
Her pictures are bright enough to seduce, sharp enough to indict, and complicated enough to refuse easy moral comfort. That tension is precisely what has made Abney one of the defi
Hallie Quinn Brown and the Long Sound of Black Freedom
She was an orator, educator, suffragist, institution builder, and archivist of Black women’s greatness. America remembers fragments of her life. It has not yet reckoned with the
David Bradley and The Novel That Went Underground
Before “the archive” became a cultural keyword, David Bradley built a masterpiece around what Black families knew, what official history buried, and what America still refuses
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
