Dressed in a tuxedo, civil-rights leader W.E.B. Du Bois married an activist nearly three decades his junior on Feb. 27, 1951, in a posh house in southeast Queens. The exterior of the Addisleigh Par… ...

As Du Bois College House completes its 45th year in operation, I’ve decided to pay homage to the place that I call home on Penn’s campus. Du Bois, known as one of the hubs for black social life on ...

W.E.B. Du Bois always had some presence in this mountain nook ... he built a shrine to iconic house music DJ Frankie Knuckles and outlined his intention to buy the former Chicago home of ...

Alongside a hardware store in Great Barrington, Mass. – population: 8,000 – a graffiti mural contains a quote by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.: “History cannot ignore W.E.B. Du … ...

“When I say I live in Du Bois, the conversation always seems to take a very sharp turn,” College sophomore Kelly Kwakye said. “You start talking about Du Bois and people start talking about black ...

On August 27, 1963, an African-American writer, teacher and leader who had renounced his citizenship and immigrated to Ghana died there in relative obscurity. The following day Martin Luther King ...

On Friday Feb. 23, poets went head-to-head in the W.E.B. Du Bois Poetry Slam Invitational at the Carney Family Auditorium in Furcolo Hall. The event was the first part of a two-part Black Artistic ...

Per the W.E.B. Du Bois Museum Foundation, the complex will feature a museum, library and reading room, event hall, outdoor auditorium and amphitheater, lecture space, guest house for visiting ...

W.E.B. Du Bois, Open Forum, Conservatory Hall, Hilda Satt Polacheck, Helen H. Raab, NAACP, Hull House, Radcliffe Bailey, Peter Dreier, socialism Share with someone you care about: Bobby Tanzilo ...

On February 23, 2025, the W.E.B. Du Bois Museum Foundation, in collaboration with the Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Creative Arts, hosted a commemorative event marking the 157th anniversary of ...

The exhibition will be accompanied by a book, Black Lives 1900: W.E.B. Du Bois at the Paris Exposition, edited by Julian Rothenstein and published by Redstone Press. W.E.B. Du Bois: Charting Black ...