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.

the Hutchins Center for African and African American Studies honored seven individuals who have worked to advance the African American community with the W.E.B. DuBois Medal — Harvard’s most ...

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 ...

A ceremony honoring Spike Lee, John Legend, Ice-T, and other recipients of the W.E.B. Du Bois Medal has been postponed by Harvard University due to the Israel-Hamas war. The star-studded event ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

This week, the world famous scholar and social justice advocate received the prestigious W.E.B. Du Bois Medal ... Research courtesy of her alma mater, Harvard, according to a press release.

W.E.B. Du Bois, American sociologist ... according to the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University. Du Bois descended from mixed-race Bahamian slaves.