Category: KOLUMN Magazine

Breonna Taylor was working as an EMT in Louisville when the coronavirus pandemic hit the country, helping to save lives while trying to protect her own. On March 13, the 26-year-old aspiring nurse was killed in her apartment, shot at least eight times by Louisville police officers who officials have said were executing a drug warrant, according […]

Denise Woodard never imagined that her daughter’s food allergies would lead her down a pathway toward entrepreneurship. Back in 2016, she was a corporate executive at The Coca-Cola Co. when a peanut and corn snack almost took her daughter Vivienne’s life when she was just a year old. “My daughter was born in 2015, and […]

The pandemic has brought the latest battle in the long American war over communal well-being. He became a founding father. He coveted his freedom. But for most of his political career, he turned away from talk of founding or fathering a new nation to secure his freedom. As a South Carolina legislator, Christopher Memminger took […]

Among the people demanding to enter the home was a person carrying an assault weapon and another with a shotgun, according to local reports. A sheriff’s deputy in North Carolina is facing criminal charges after authorities said he led a group of armed people to the wrong home in a search for a missing girl. […]

A woman in New York is raising funds to get nurses across the country comfortable footwear with her ‘Nikes for Nurses’ campaign. Up until the coronavirus pandemic hit its peak, many underrated the importance of healthcare workers, especially nurses, but most of these nurses are up on their feet most part of the day. The […]

Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms (D) said Sunday that rhetoric from the White House gives “permission” to people who are “prone to being racist.” Her comments on CNN’s “State of the Union” were in response to questions regarding the shooting of Ahmaud Arbery, a 25-year-old black man killed in February.  Bottoms said the circumstances surrounding Arbery’s death are part of a […]

Candice Elder, founder and executive director of the East Oakland Collective, is a force to reckon with in Oakland when the issue of homelessness is brought up. During this quarantine season, her comrades as well as herself have successfully organized a moratorium on the police sweeping of homeless encampments in Oakland, which was passed unanimously […]

On the trail to Montgomery. March 27 The thirty thousand people who at one point or another took part in this week’s march from the Brown Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Selma, Alabama, to the statehouse in Montgomery were giving highly dramatic expression to a principle that could be articulated only in the vaguest […]

Christin Farmer​ is providing the black mothers of Cleveland, Ohio, with the support they need to keep their children alive. The high rate of death for black infants showcases the virulent brutality of institutional racism. Recent data collected by the US government has found that black babies are twice as likely to die as white babies. And, […]