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The Men Who Carried A Movement
Inside the National A. Philip Randolph Pullman Por
The Road Africa Builds for Itself
Across Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana and Tunisia, homegrow
The Sculptor Who Awakened Black Memory
Before Harlem became a Renaissance, Meta Vaux Warr
The House That August Built
How Pittsburgh’s August Wilson African American
The Tables That Helped Black America Survive the Road
Before “hospitality” became a lifestyle word,
Julia Perry’s Unfinished Thunder
Before illness, poverty, and neglect pushed her mu
Frederick Douglass Was Born Here. The House Is Gone.
A vanished cabin near Tuckahoe Creek once held Dou
The Lie That Put Nine Boys on Trial
The Scottsboro Boys were not saved by the system.
Who Gets to Sell the American Dream?
From C.R. Patterson to Ed Davis to today’s 266 B
The House That Detroit Built for Black Memory
Inside the Charles H. Wright Museum’s six-decade
The Men Who Carried A Movement
Inside the National A. Philip Randolph Pullman Porter Museum, where the story of Black labor, civil rights, and American democracy is preserved in the neighborhood that helped tran
The Road Africa Builds for Itself
Across Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana and Tunisia, homegrown automakers are trying to turn a continent long treated as a destination for used cars into a center of industrial imagination.
The Sculptor Who Awakened Black Memory
Before Harlem became a Renaissance, Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller was already shaping a visual language for Black history, grief, dignity and rebirth.
The House That August Built
How Pittsburgh’s August Wilson African American Cultural Center became a monument, a warning, and a living argument for Black cultural permanence.
The Tables That Helped Black America Survive the Road
Before “hospitality” became a lifestyle word, Green Book restaurants made food, safety and dignity available to travelers navigating a segregated nation.
Julia Perry’s Unfinished Thunder
Before illness, poverty, and neglect pushed her music to the margins, Perry built one of the most daring bodies of work in twentieth-century American composition.
Frederick Douglass Was Born Here. The House Is Gone.
A vanished cabin near Tuckahoe Creek once held Douglass, his grandmother Betsy Bailey, and her free husband Isaac Bailey. What would it mean to rebuild it now?
The Lie That Put Nine Boys on Trial
The Scottsboro Boys were not saved by the system. They survived it, and in doing so exposed the machinery that made Black guilt a legal habit.
Who Gets to Sell the American Dream?
From C.R. Patterson to Ed Davis to today’s 266 Black-owned stores, the story of Black auto retail is a story about access to power.
The House That Detroit Built for Black Memory
Inside the Charles H. Wright Museum’s six-decade fight to make African American history public, permanent and impossible to ignore. “The Wright did not emerge from elite permis
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.
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