More than any other Black thinker of his generation, Du Bois identified Reconstruction, the years of hope and pain following the formal end of slavery, as America’s most important origin story.

In other words, the reason I keep coming back to “Black Reconstruction” is that Du Bois’s mode of analysis can help us (or, at least, me) look past so much of the ephemera of our politics to ...

But my touchstone for thinking about the period continues to be W.E.B. Du Bois’ “Black Reconstruction,” published in 1935 after years of painstaking research, often inhibited by segregation ...

T here is a curious passage in W.E.B. Du Bois’ 1903 masterpiece, ... Another pillar of Redemptionist rhetoric is the feminization of progressive politics. From Reconstruction to the present, ...

On Feb. 11, 1951, an article by the 82-year-old Black scholar-activist W.E.B. Du Bois titled “Negro History Week” appeared in the short-lived New York newspaper The Daily Compass. As one of the ...

Now in its third year, The Du Bois Forum seeks to serve as "an incubator, a meeting place, and a resting place." ...

The EFF remains caught within the limits of the era of reconstruction, and will therefore not emancipate Black people from oppression. Cet article affirme que l’Afrique du Sud post-apartheid est en ...

One of my favorite quotes from W.E.B. Du Bois, a towering intellectual and activist for racial equality in the 20th century, recounts the necessity for truth when placing a light on the past and ...

W.E.B. Du Bois is perhaps best known for introducing the term “double consciousness” into the lexicon of the Black experience. The term described the duality of being a Black American ...

As the 20th century’s preeminent scholar-activist on race, W.E.B. Du Bois would not be surprised by modern-day attempts at whitewashing American history. He saw them in 1930s and 1940s.