by October Gallery
A new memorial to Emmett Till was dedicated on Saturday in Mississippi after previous historical markers were repeatedly vandalized. The new marker is bulletproof. Till, 14, was kidnapped, beaten and…
You won’t see the smiley-faced logo of The Comedian—a savage, cynical, cigar-chomping vigilante from Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ seminal Watchmen—in HBO’s new series of the same name. Yet his…
KOLUMN Magazine celebrates the lives of People of Color by giving our world texture. Posts navigation August is my favorite month because every year my family goes on an African…
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KOLUMN Magazine celebrates the lives of People of Color by giving our world texture. Posts navigation Who says you need a cape to be a superhero? Not these good brothers.…
Throughout West Indian households, like the one in which I grew up in 1970s Luton, you will hear the phrase, “Me don’t like people chat my business.” There has always…
KOLUMN Magazine celebrates the lives of People of Color by giving our world texture. Posts navigation When historian historian Quincy Newell was researching 19th-century African American Mormons, one name kept…
Elijah E. Cummings, a Democratic congressman from Maryland who gained national attention for his principled stands on politically charged issues in the House, his calming effect on anti-police riots in…
I remember the first time a friend of mine died by suicide. I was living in Washington, D.C. when I got the phone call from our mutual friend, Preston. The…
The debut of the New York Times’ 1619 Project has pushed our nation closer to better understanding the impacts of slavery, which has ironically but not surprisingly been whitewashed for…