At the height of World War I, W.E.B. Du Bois published a controversial 1918 editorial, “Close Ranks,” in the NAACP publication the Crisis. In it, he counseled his readers to “forget our ...

Misbehaving at the Crossroads” is the first work of nonfiction by the author of the acclaimed, bestselling novel “The Love ...

In 1962, Du Bois republished the text with International Publishers, imprint of the Communist Party, and added commentary on developments in Russia and China, as well as some notes regarding ...

Mullen is a professor of English and American studies at Purdue University and the author of two previous studies of Du Bois: Afro-Orientalism (University of Minnesota Press, 2004) and Un-American: W.

The AJC Sepia W.E.B. Du Bois Reading List W.E.B. Du Bois’ publishing history spans from his 1896 Harvard dissertation to books about African colonialism well into the 1960s.

After my father’s death, I didn’t write for two years. Even reading fiction no longer interested me. But when a friend mentioned W. E. B. Du Bois’s Dark Princess, a romance novel published ...

In Corinne Hoex’s Gentlemen Callers, sex is a dream. The book’s protagonist floats between abstract, ethereal trysts. When she visits a gas-station attendant in her sleep, she is a soapy ...

In 1963, Aldon Morris was 14 when the scholar and civil rights activist W.E.B. Du Bois died the day before the historic March on Washington. Du Bois’ death was announced as the Rev. Martin Lu… ...

She brought attention to the fact that the book’s publishers did not correctly identify W.E.B. Du Bois, Booker T. Washington, and Carter G. Woodson in their book.

In his 1903 book "The Souls of Black Folk," Du Bois used the "color line" as a symbol for the literal racial separation in America and ... W.E.B. Du Bois' infographic displaying income and ...

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.