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.

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.

In 1871, the Fisk University singers embarked on a tour that introduced white Americans to a Black sound that would reshape the nation.

The radical approach employed by black leftists at the Amenia conference set the stage for the civil rights unionism that would help topple Jim Crow.

A new book works to counteract the “symphony of erasure” that has obscured and denied Africa’s contributions to the contemporary world.