Roughly 60 students, Penn alumni, and Penn community members — including Interim President Wendell Pritchett — gathered to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Du Bois College House last Friday. The ...

GREAT BARRINGTON — Ny Whitaker has been named executive director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Center for Freedom and Democracy, known as the Du Bois Freedom Center. The appointment follows a seven-month, ...

The W. E. B. Du Bois Center for Freedom and Democracy in Great Barrington, Massachusetts has a new executive director. Ny Whitaker is a former White House senior advisor and a New York University ...

GREAT BARRINGTON — Ny Whitaker stops mid-sentence when she is suddenly enchanted by what’s happening on the east side of town. “I’m distracted by the beautiful mist that is coming off the mountain,” ...

The Daily Pennsylvanian is a student-run nonprofit. Please support us by disabling your ad blocker on our site. On the 50th anniversary of the founding of Du Bois College House, Black students raised ...

On Friday Feb. 23, poets went head-to-head in the W.E.B. Du Bois Poetry Slam Invitational at the Carney Family Auditorium in Furcolo Hall. The event was the first part of a two-part Black Artistic ...

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 ...

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 the ...

FILE - Actor Courtney B. Vance appears at the premiere of FX's "Grotesquerie" in New York on Sept. 23, 2024. (Photo by Andy Kropa/Invision/AP, File) (Andy Kropa, 2024 Invision) “As a lover of history, ...

“The Comet/Poppea” radically pares down a classic and blends it with a premiere by George E. Lewis for an original show that will travel widely. By Seth Colter Walls Morality takes a hike in Claudio ...

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 Pulitzer ...