In “Democracy and Beauty,” Robert Gooding-Williams explores the arguments and intellectual legacy of W.E.B. Du Bois.

Discover must-read books and literary works by W.E.B. Du Bois, exploring race, identity, and social justice in powerful and ...

In “Superfine,” the Africana-studies scholar Monica L. Miller explores the links between style, self-presentation, and ...

Critical Theory and the Process of Emancipation, philosopher William M. Paris makes an important contribution to ...

and sociologist and activist W.E.B. Du Bois. The best-dressed this time around honored the theme and honed in on the art of tailoring, but they also paid respect. There was no famine of beauty at ...

The excitement building around “Superfine: Tailoring Black Style,” the new exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute looking at the history of Black style through the ...

Black political and cultural leaders, such as abolitionist Frederick Douglass and civil rights activist W. E. B. Du Bois, set the tone in that collection, which considers the politics of ...

W.E.B. Du Bois, Miller points out, was not only a civil rights activist but also one of the best-dressed men in turn-of-the-century America. He traveled extensively overseas, which meant he needed ...

Figures like Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois used refined imagery to challenge racist narratives. By the 1920s, Black men reinterpreted Eurocentric fashion through their own lens ...

During its heyday in the ’50s and ’60s, the hotel attracted Black musicians like Aretha Franklin, who performed there and thought leaders, including W.E.B. Du Bois. Entrepreneurs like Madam CJ ...

His childhood neighbor, W.E.B. Du Bois, motivated his self-penned liner notes, a 53-word exhortation with pithy parallelisms and rhetorical flourishes a la Frederick Douglass. Its epigrammatic ...