W.E.B. Du Bois

W.E.B. Du Bois’ message to African American artists.

On the complex relationship between Black Americans and the Black church.

A conversation on Du Bois' perspective on empire and democracy, the development of his anti-imperial thought, and his vision for transnational solidarity.

The symbolic battles of World War I.

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.

With bar graphs and pie charts, the sociologist and his Atlanta students demonstrated Black excellence in the face of widespread discrimination.

This long overdue tribute honors historian W. E. B. Du Bois, who died on August 27, 1963.

Faculty and staff once owned slaves, and professors taught racial eugenics.

The enduring legacy and capacious vision of Black Reconstruction.

A look at African-American scholars' contributions to health disparity discourse.

W.E.B. Du Bois’s exhibit at the 1900 Paris Exposition offered him a chance to present the dramatic gains made by Black Americans since the end of slavery.

W.E.B. DuBois, 100 years ago.

Mainstream culture denied Black children their humanity—so W. E. B. Du Bois created The Brownies’ Book to assert it.

A review of "Lines of Descent: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Emergence of Identity," by Kwame Anthony Appiah.

Activists including W. E .B. Du Bois in the United States and Lajpat Rai in India drew connections between Black American and Indian experiences of white rule.

A look at how and why African Americans first started to abandon the GOP for the Democratic Party.

For generations of American radicals, the path to liberation required a new constitution, not forced removal.

On revisiting the anti-imperialism of the 1960s and ’70s amid the return of left internationalism.

The world-spanning art of the Harlem Renaissance.

In a circumscribed universe, Black Americans have ceaselessly reinvented themselves.