In celebration of Black History Month, here are ten fascinating facts about W.E.B. Du Bois: In 1895, Du Bois became the first African American to be hired at Harvard University. He was also the ...

Tony Award-winning actor Courtney B. Vance will reintroduce the legacy of W.E.B. Du Bois as narrator of a two-volume biography about the civil rights activist. The opportunity to narrate the ...

Instead, he gave me W.E.B. Du Bois’ The Souls of Black Folk. At the time, I had no idea who or what that was—and neither did any of my classmates when I gave my report. Now, I realize that ...

At the height of World War I, W.E.B. Du Bois published a controversial 1918 editorial, “Close Ranks,” in the NAACP publication the Crisis. In it, he counseled his readers to “forget our ...

In 1916, W.E.B. Du Bois convened a group of Black scholars and writers to discuss the issues of the day at Troutbeck, the Hudson Valley estate of NAACP cofounder Joel Spingarn. Du Bois had ...

However, as I explore in my new book, “The Wounded World: W.E.B. Du Bois and the First World War,” the two pioneering ... make America and Negroes themselves aware of the significant facts of Negro ...

And now, that magazine is making a comeback. W.E.B. Du Bois, the civil rights activist and sociologist, published the first issue of The Brownies’ Book in January 1920. Subtitled “A Monthly ...

Melissa Wilde, the Chair of the Department of Sociology, agreed with Zuberi. “W.E.B. Du Bois was a path-breaking sociologist who was not given the recognition or professional accolades he deserved ...

In 1919, Fauset arrived in the New York City neighborhood of Harlem as the new literary editor of The Crisis, the leading publication for Black writers founded by W.E.B Du Bois. Fauset ...

Acclaimed actor Courtney B. Vance is embarking on a significant cultural journey by lending his voice to the audiobook version of “W.E.B. Du Bois, 1868-1919: Biography of a Race,” the Pulitzer ...

However, as I explore in my new book, “The Wounded World: W.E.B. Du Bois and the First World War ... themselves aware of the significant facts of Negro history.” Summarizing his work ...

In Volume One of "W.E.B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race" audiobook, the actor will narrate the first five decades of the activist's life. Tony Award-winning actor Courtney B. Vance will reintroduce ...