The award is named after William Edward Burghardt (W.E.B.) Du Bois, a scholar, writer, and civil rights activist who was the first black student to earn a doctorate from Harvard in 1895.

Harvard is set to award the W.E.B. Du Bois Medal to Queen Latifah and six other recipients on October 22. The Cambridge, Massachusetts, school's Hutchins Center for African and African American ...

The W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research at Harvard University is the nation's oldest research center dedicated to the study of the history, culture, and social institutions of Africans ...

W.E. B. Du Bois championed higher education. But though Du Bois was one of Harvard University’s most dedicated advocates and most esteemed graduates, Harvard never quite welcomed him into the fold.

Two years ago, Harvard established the Nasir Jones Hip-Hop Fellowship in honor of the rapper, and most recently, he was awarded the university’s W.E.B. DuBois medal from the prestigious school ...

Harvard’s W.E.B. Du Bois Institute, the oldest research center in the country dedicated to African and African American studies, has seen its fair share of greats. And last Friday, the center ...

CAMBRIDGE — A Harvard University choir group that rejected author W.E.B. Du Bois when he was a student because he was black will celebrate his work through a musical tribute. The Harvard Glee ...

The medal is considered "Harvard's highest honor in the field ... "Due to the current litigation of W.E.B. Du Boss medalist Colin Kaepernick," the stream read, "no press photography or video ...

Colin Kaepernick will be honored at Harvard University on Oct. 11 as a recipient of the W.E.B. Du Bois Medal, the university’s “highest honor in the field of African and African American ...