Category: KOLUMN Magazine

The social network’s tone has long reflected corporate America: staid, monolithic, white. Now Black users are speaking up — and saying the site is limiting their voice. — Ashanti M. Martin, The New York Times One day in September, Elizabeth Leiba opened the LinkedIn app and saw a post by Aaisha Joseph, a diversity consultant […]

— Jessica Stewart, My Modern Met Every year, thanks to poachers, 30,000 species are driven to extinction. And in Africa alone, 96 elephants a day are killed at the hands of these poachers. But in Zimbabwe, efforts are being made to turn the tide against this illegal activity. Through his International Anti-Poaching Foundation, Australian Iraq war […]

— Lindsay Adams, Apartment Therapy Coffee table books are by far my favorite home detail. What more can one ask for: Art, history, and beautiful pictures all in one? Yes, please! I’ve been collecting coffee table books since I started high school. When I’d visit museums, I’d get book souvenirs to take home. I was always […]

Jackson tracks the journeys of the men and women trafficked by ships that delivered them into slavery – or often a watery grave — Joseph Harker, The Guardian This year has seen a proliferation of freshly commissioned shows examining racism in response to the Black Lives Matter movement. Enslaved (BBC Two, Sunday), however, predates the death […]

— Betty Reid Soskin, Newsweek In the 1990s, I was in my 70s and working as a field staffer for California State Assemblywoman Dion Aroner, out of a one-person satellite office in Richmond. I had many meetings with lots of people on various subjects, and one of those was the Rosie the Riveter/World War II […]

— Steve Johnson, Chicago Tribune Chevy Humphrey, the newly appointed president and CEO of Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry, told two very on-point stories about her career path. When Humphrey was interviewing for her first job at the Arizona Science Center, the leading science museum in Phoenix, Sheila Grinell, the then-CEO, asked Humphrey where […]

The Obsidian Collection is collaborating with Google Arts & Culture to ensure the journalism is preserved for many years to come — Dana Givens, Black Enterprise Architecture is an extremely difficult field to enter, especially for people of color. In a 2018 report from the National Council of Architectural Registration Board, nonwhite architecture professionals are 25% more likely to […]

This married filmmaker duo celebrates Fort Greene Park’s legendary outdoor party, which ascended to become a global destination for house heads and a safe haven for Black queer expression. — Tayo Giwa and Cynthia Gordy Giwa, Essence In this unrelenting year of Black pain and loss, we’ve been thinking a lot about Black joy. Where […]

A newly commissioned portrait of Sarah Forbes Bonetta is now on view at the monarch’s seaside house, Osbourne — Isis Davis-Marks, Smithsonian Magazine A new portrait of Queen Victoria’s black goddaughter, Sarah Forbes Bonetta, is now on view at Osborne, the Hanover monarch’s beloved seaside home. Per a statement, the painting—created by artist Hannah Uzor—is based on a photograph […]

— William Spivey, Medium I recently wrote a story about “Why We Need a White History Month,” which discusses several things that aren’t generally taught and frankly that white people, especially along with everyone else, need to know about American History. “You only ever mention bad things that white people have done as if that […]