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 — 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 ...

GREAT BARRINGTON — A bronze sculpture of W.E.B. Du Bois in the heart of the town where he was born and raised is on its way — though it will take a while. And before the artist gets to work, the W.E.B ...

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 ...

H.E. Nàna Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, president of the Republic of Ghana, plans to construct a state-of-the-art museum complex honoring civil rights pioneer Dr. W.E.B Du Bois who spent the last years of ...

GREAT BARRINGTON — February in the Berkshires typically brings to mind an array of nature-centric, winter-wonderland pleasures like snowshoeing or skiing, and in the continuing drag of this long, long ...

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