A mural dedicated to Du Bois and the Old Seventh Ward is painted on the corner of 6th and South streets in Philadelphia. Paul Marotta/Getty Images Much of Philadelphia’s elite of the day believed that ...

The University of Massachusetts hosted a virtual lecture titled “Pan-African Brothers: A study of the intellectual and political relationship between W.E.B. Du Bois and George Padmore” on Dec. 7. Adam ...

GREAT BARRINGTON — A life-size statue of Civil Rights pioneer W.E.B. Du Bois has been set in place on a curved marble bench outside Mason Public library. But until its formal unveiling next week, the ...

GREAT BARRINGTON — The town’s Mason Library may soon be the keeper of artifacts related to civil rights architect W.E.B. Du Bois, including his original letters, after town officials said they might ...

On Feb. 13, a panel of sociologists and anthropologists briefly showed an introduction to the life and work of William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (W.E.B Du Bois), the scholar and activist for whom the ...

NEW YORK — Award-winning actor Courtney B. Vance will be narrating the first ever-audio edition of one of the most acclaimed literary biographies of the past 30 years, David Levering Lewis’ two-volume ...

At the Paris Exposition in 1900, representatives from around the world celebrated achievements like railroads and modern factories and touted the “civilizing” rhetoric of colonialism. However, one ...

The opening days of Black History Month 2023 coincided with controversy about the teaching and broader meaning of African-American studies. On Feb. 1, the College Board released a revised curriculum ...

The NAACP – the most prominent interracial civil rights organization in American history – published the first issue of The Crisis, its official magazine, 110 years ago, in 1910. For almost two and a ...

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