In 1906, from a window in his tiny office on the second floor of what was called Stone Hall, Atlanta University professor W.E.B. Du Bois watched Atlanta burn. The 1906 Atlanta Race Massacre ...

A century before FX’s Atlanta broadcast an experimental take on the Southern African American experience, W.E.B. Du Bois invented the genre with his 1903 book The Souls of Black Folk. Du Bois ...

Washington, president of Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, and W. E. B. Du Bois, founding member of the ... and apparently was always restless as a child. He seemed to have a sense of ambition ...

Elijah Anderson, Yale University (THE CONVERSATION) W.E.B. Du Bois is widely known for his civil rights activism, but many sociologists arguethat he has yet to receive due recognition as the ...

The first African Studies Association was founded in 1958, but Hegel’s nineteenth-century claim held sway well into the ...

“Between me and the other world there is ever an unasked question,” W.E.B. Du Bois wrote in his classic ... of the teen girl group Destiny’s Child, she has since rocketed to the sort of ...

Influential black intellectual W.E.B. Du Bois dies. TV chef Julia Child becomes known for her French cooking. Sidney Poitier is the first African American to win the Best Actor Oscar (for "Lilies ...

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Later that year, W. E. B. Du Bois argued that all art is propaganda and “the white public today demands from its artists, literary and pictorial, racial pre-judgment which deliberately distorts Truth ...

Cornel West is an activist for social justice running for the Justice For All Party in the 2024 US Election, inspiring a ...