A life-size sculpture of civil rights activist W.E.B. Du Bois will be unveiled in his hometown this Saturday at 2 p.m. The ...

Great Barrington — At a private event for donors and local media, the sculpture of W.E.B. Du Bois was unveiled at the Mason ...

The Massachusetts Office of Economic Development has awarded the W.E.B. Du Bois Sculpture Project $50,000. The bronze statue will be built in front of the Mason Public Library in Great Barrington.

The forum weekend begins Friday, July 18, with the fourth annual Du Bois Forum Roundtable and Celebration at Jacob’s Pillow in Massachusetts.

Du Bois, a prolific historian and sociologist, has long been an inspiration to me, and it was one of the great honors of my life to receive the W.E.B. Du Bois Medal from Harvard University in 2019.

On this day in history, Aug. 27, 1963, W.E.B. Du Bois — who grew up in Massachusetts and became a prominent sociologist, author, activist and co-founder of the NAACP — died at age 95.

"As a group, collectively, so many people across the world are doing things in [Du Bois'] memory." Du Bois' great-grandson ...