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Jane Crow’s Author
Before “intersectionality” had a name, Pauli M
John Biggers’s America Was a Shotgun House, a Mother’s Hands, a Vast Geometry
From Jim Crow North Carolina to West Africa and ba
Where History Checked In
On a stretch of Northwest 27th Avenue, Miami’s H
The Novelist Who Wrote the Great Migration in Steel
Attaway’s Blood on the Forge captured the violen
Franklin McCain and the Architecture of a Stand
A chemist by training, a strategist by temperament
Velvet Hammer
Designed by Zelda Wynn Valdes and armed with a fou
The Night They Tried to Break Fannie Lou Hamer
In a Winona, Mississippi jail in 1963, police outs
Where the Lights Found Them
Before the nation called them icons, Ossie Davis a
The Man Who Made Ice Cream Make Sense
In 19th-century Philadelphia, Augustus Jackson hel
The Man Who Outwrote the Fugitive Slave Law
William Wells Brown escaped bondage, then turned p
Jane Crow’s Author
Before “intersectionality” had a name, Pauli Murray mapped how race and sex discrimination fused in American law—and dared movements to catch up.
John Biggers’s America Was a Shotgun House, a Mother’s Hands, a Vast Geometry
From Jim Crow North Carolina to West Africa and back to Third Ward Houston, Biggers made an epic visual language out of the everyday—part social history, part spiritual diagram.
Where History Checked In
On a stretch of Northwest 27th Avenue, Miami’s Hampton House offered Black celebrity and Black organizing what segregation tried to deny: rest, refuge and a room of one’s own.
The Novelist Who Wrote the Great Migration in Steel
Attaway’s Blood on the Forge captured the violence of industrial America with documentary force. Why did its author stop writing novels just as the country started catching up to
Franklin McCain and the Architecture of a Stand
A chemist by training, a strategist by temperament, McCain helped turn a simple act—asking to be served—into a national method for dismantling segregation.
Velvet Hammer
Designed by Zelda Wynn Valdes and armed with a four-octave voice, Joyce Bryant forced her way into the mid-century spotlight. The cost of that visibility—racial terror, exploitat
The Night They Tried to Break Fannie Lou Hamer
In a Winona, Mississippi jail in 1963, police outsourced violence to Black men, turned humiliation into policy, and helped forge one of the movement’s most uncompromising witness
Where the Lights Found Them
Before the nation called them icons, Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee found each other beneath Broadway’s glare—and built a love story sturdy enough to hold a movement.
The Man Who Made Ice Cream Make Sense
In 19th-century Philadelphia, Augustus Jackson helped turn a fragile luxury into a repeatable product—then slipped into the fog where Black innovation so often goes.
The Man Who Outwrote the Fugitive Slave Law
William Wells Brown escaped bondage, then turned print into a weapon—writing the first published Black novel, staging the first published Black play, and insisting that America r
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.
