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KOLUMN Magazine celebrates the lives of People of Color by giving our world texture. Posts navigation A California postal worker has been honored with a pair of awards after finding…
Amy Harmon, The New York Times The Communist leader Claudia Jones, 1948; right, the inventor and scientist George Washington Carver, 1937. Composite: Rex/Getty. Featured Image It was meant to be…
Four hundred years ago, “about the latter end of August,” an English pirate ship called the White Lion landed at Point Comfort in the Virginia Colony carrying “not anything but…
On Friday evening, after an evening out with her husband and 11-year-old son, Solange Knowles went on a tweet storm about how she was treated at a Kraftwerk concert in…
Black academics and cultural commentators pick eight watershed moments and fearless people we should be remembering this month. In 1926, the US historian Carter G Woodson, the son of former…
The concept of nation states in Africa is only a bit over a century old, arising after the 1884 Berlin Conference and the subsequent Scramble for Africa by European superpowers…
Today in Iowa, 2020 Presidential candidate and California Senator, Kamala Harris, unveiled her newest plan to give federal paid leave to working Americans. This includes up to six months of…
When George Gershwin debuted his new American folk opera, Porgy and Bess, in 1935, the rights to stage the production came with a stipulation: It could only be performed by…
I never fully realized the monumental role that massive numbers of children played in civil rights protests. Law enforcement arrested and jailed children by the thousands for days, and sometimes…
Authorities say Samuel Little, 79, serving life in California prison, has confessed to the murders. The inmate who claims to have killed more than 90 women across the United States…