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 ...
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 ...
William Edward Burghardt Du Bois was a cultured writer, political philosopher and activist with enormous intellectual achievements who, over his long life, relentlessly pursued the goal of equality ...
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 ...
More than 150 years later, W.E.B. Du Bois continues to inspire (though not everyone knows who he is)
GREAT BARRINGTON — Denny Alsop keeps an excerpt of a speech W.E.B. Du Bois on his phone and can pull it up fast. “There’s one piece I just love so much,” said Alsop, a longtime clean-water activist ...
In 1906, from a window in his tiny office on the second floor of what was called Stone Hall, Atlanta University professor W.E.B. Du Bois watched Atlanta burn. The 1906 Atlanta Race Massacre shocked ...
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 ...
October 1961 was a momentous month for W. E. B. Du Bois. Since the early years of the twentieth century, Du Bois had been a towering figure among Black American intellectuals. A sociologist by ...
The U.S. Department of Education apologized Sunday for a tweet that misspelled the name of W.E.B. Du Bois while quoting the late writer, historian and civil rights activist. The tweet spelled his last ...
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