Category: KOLUMN Magazine

Cornell University researchers analyzing 38 million English-language articles about the pandemic found that President Trump was the largest driver of the “infodemic.” — Sheryl Gay Stolberg & Noah Weiland , The New York Times WASHINGTON — Of the flood of misinformation, conspiracy theories and falsehoods seeding the internet on the coronavirus, one common thread stands out: President […]

— ABS Contributor, Atlanta Black Star Caleb Anderson could sign 250 words at 9 months old, and by 15 months could already name all the countries on the globe. At age two, he read the U.S. Constitution, and today he speaks three languages other than English — Spanish, French and Mandarin. Those early accomplishments helped […]

“I have been fighting to get cancer out of my body for almost two years.” — VIBE Staff, VIBE Ananda Lewis, former host of BET’s Teen Summit and MTV veejay who hosted her own self-titled daytime talk show, revealed that she has stage 3 breast cancer. Lewis, 47, shared her story in commemoration of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, which […]

The director’s new Small Axe series kicks off with the landmark 1971 trial of the Mangrove Nine. It’s his aim to fill these gaps in British history, he says, and to open the industry to other black film-makers — Lanre Bakare, The Guardian Photographer Misan Harriman is gently cajoling actor Shaun Parkes as the sun burns through […]

As a civil rights attorney, he won a landmark case to end segregation in public schools—then fought to uphold those gains through dissent on a changing Court. — ERIN BLAKEMORE, National Geographic DECADES BEFORE THURGOOD Marshall was sworn into the U.S. Supreme Court on October 2, 1967, the man who would become its first Black justice […]

It’s an old story, of being ignored, patronized or dismissed. But for Black retailers, sommeliers, writers and winemakers, the days of invisibility are over. — Eric Asimov, The New York Times TJ Douglas and his wife, Hadley, own Urban Grape, a thriving wine shop in the South End neighborhood of Boston. Before the pandemic, a regular […]

Curator Jova Lynne has been rehired by the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit six months after leaving as the result of a conflict with former director Elysia Borowy-Reeder. — Isabelle Bousquette, Detroit Free Press She’s assuming the job title of Susanne Feld Hillberry senior curator and is already at work planning a February exhibition of work […]

— AUSTIN WEINSTEIN, The Charlotte Observer At least seven Black female senior executives have left Wells Fargo in the past 12 months, depleting the pipeline of women executives of color to the bank’s most senior positions. Two went to work at Citigroup, which just announced the first female CEO of a major U.S. bank. One […]

In the wake of this year’s nationwide protests against institutional racism, Black Appalachians have found an opportunity for their history and struggles to be recognized more widely. — The Associated Press, NBC News LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Dayjha Hogg has known racism her entire life, but until recently she thought she and her family had to […]