Category: KOLUMN Magazine

Organizations led by people of color win less grant money and are trusted less to make decisions about how to spend those funds than groups with white leaders, according to a new report by the consultancy Bridgespan and Echoing Green, an organization that invests in and provides support for leaders of emerging social enterprises. The differences described […]

A new mural in Richmond, Virginia, featuring seven Black women, reminds residents, old and new, that Black people matter. Hull Street in Richmond, Virginia’s South Side neighborhood has seen gentrification over the years and a 20-by-60-foot-tall mural titled “Brown Girl Narratives” has gone up as a reminder of what used to be, the Richmond Times-Dispatch reports. The colorfully […]

The first black pilots in U.S. history didn’t just excel in combat—they also broke racial barriers. This is their story. On March 24, 1945, the 332nd Fighter Group of the U.S. Fifteenth Air Force departed from its base in Italy to escort B-17 heavy bombers on a 1,600-mile round trip flight to the German capital. […]

Building new lives in the ‘Black Belt’ By Alex Q. Arbuckle, Mashable In the early decades of the 20th century, millions of African-Americans began leaving the rural South for the urban North in a mass exodus known as the Great Migration. For many fleeing the disenfranchisement, segregation, and racist violence of the Jim Crow South, […]

A new retrospective presents Bey’s “American Project.” “It begins with the subject,” Dawoud Bey has said of his photography. “A deep interest in wanting to describe the Black subject in a way that’s as complex as the experiences of anyone else. It’s meant to kind of reshape the world one person at a time.” It is an […]

Black excellence is more than just a trendy phrase – it’s a lifestyle practiced by today’s rising millennial moguls. From entrepreneurs and CEOs to social media influencers and media personalities, these Black men are walking their respective paths to becoming the industry’s next big thing. Read more about these influential leaders below. Chris Classic Chris […]

By Chris Grisby, Spectrum News TEXAS — The Texas State Board of Education has approved an African American studies course for students to take in public high schools. The course will be the second ethnic studies course offered to students alongside Mexican American studies. Some proponents of the new course though say implementing the curriculum was a hard-fought battle.  Texas State Board […]

A new book revisits W.E.B. Du Bois’s landmark 1900 exhibition on Black American identity. By Jovonna Jones, Aperture In 1900, partway through the official planning for The Exhibit of American Negroes at the Paris Exposition, photographer Harry Shepherd was kicked off of the project. Shepherd was a successful African American studio-owner from Minnesota, and for the fair’s American Pavilion, […]

By Erin Einhorn, NBC News American children have a fundamental right to at least a basic education, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday. In a ruling legal scholars said could affect disadvantaged children across the country, Sixth Circuit Court Judge Eric Clay wrote in an opinion siding with a group of Detroit students in their suit against the state […]

By EJI Staff, EJI On April 24, 1877, as part of a political compromise that enabled his election, President Rutherford B. Hayes withdrew federal troops from Louisiana — the last federally-occupied former Confederate state — just 12 years after the end of the Civil War. The withdrawal marked the end of Reconstruction and paved the […]