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 ...
A century before FX’s Atlanta broadcast an experimental take on the Southern African American experience, W.E.B. Du Bois invented the genre with his 1903 book The Souls of Black Folk. Du Bois ...
It’s a distant cry from what the neighborhood looked like 125 years ago when sociologist and civil rights activist W.E.B. Du Bois published “The Philadelphia Negro: A Social Study.” ...
In marking 90 years since the publication of Du Bois’s groundbreaking work "Black Reconstruction," this year’s festival will ...