Category: KOLUMN Magazine

The Trump administration’s order ends deployments on June 24, just one day before thousands would qualify for education and retirement benefits. More than 40,000 National Guard members currently helping states test residents for the coronavirus and trace the spread of infections will face a “hard stop” on their deployments on June 24 — just one […]

Haircare and beauty brand SheaMoisture and its parent company, Sundial Brands, has announced a $1 million relief fund to help support women of color entrepreneurs and minority-owned businesses affected by coronavirus.  The Community Commerce fund is an extension of SheaMoisture’s long-established Community Commerce program. The fund aims to minimize financial hardships that minority and black-owned businesses are […]

On May 19, 1994, after several weeks of investigation, the federal Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a lawsuit against the Randolph County, Alabama, School Board, citing repeated violations of a racial desegregation order in place since 1970. The DOJ investigation uncovered a pattern of racial discrimination by school administrators that included extracurricular activities, student disciplinary […]

OXFORD, Miss. — Ben Williams, the first African-American to play in a football game for Ole Miss, died on Monday in Jackson, Mississippi. He was 65. Williams enrolled at Ole Miss in 1971 alongside James Reed, making them the first two black football players in school history. Williams still holds the Ole Miss school records for […]

Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments is and should be read as a historic and contemporary text that excavates the untold life projects and struggles of individuals confined to the lower rungs of America’s socioeconomic and political ladders. In poetic fashion, the book forcefully intervenes on scholarly conversations focused on urban working-class Black women and girls. A brilliantly written […]

One well-liked diversity training program at Google called Sojourn was cut entirely, according to seven former and current employees. Google has significantly rolled back its diversity and inclusion initiatives in an apparent effort to avoid being perceived as anti-conservative, according to eight current and former employees. Since 2018, internal diversity and inclusion training programs have […]

It’s a simple photograph: a young man staring directly into the camera, arms folded. In the image captured in 1962, dance maestro Alvin Ailey looks defiant. Rhea Combs also sees something else when she looks at the black-and-white image. To her, the fact that photographer Jack Mitchell captured the performer shirtless is a visual metaphor, […]

The ‘Brown Bomber’ defended his title for 25 successive bouts in a record reign that started in 1937 and ended in 1949 London — Boxing fans and historians will always argue over the greatest heavyweight of them all, but even Muhammad Ali was willing to admit he might have met his match in Joseph Louis […]