Colgate University’s Africana and Latin American Studies program (ALST) invited Deborah Thomas to speak as part of the ...

Harvard’s Hutchins Center for African and African American Research awarded seven people the W.E.B. Du Bois Medal on Tuesday ...

One of the elements of W. E. B. Du Bois’s argument in Black Reconstruction in America that surprised me most the last time ...

GREAT BARRINGTON — Denny Alsop keeps an excerpt of a speech W.E.B. Du Bois on his phone and can pull it up fast. “There’s one piece I just love so much,” said Alsop, a longtime clean-water activist ...

William Edward Burghardt Du Bois was a cultured writer, political philosopher and activist with enormous intellectual achievements who, over his long life, relentlessly pursued the goal of equality ...

At nearly 65, Dr. Du Bois Williams believes she has just started her life’s true quest — following in the spiritual footsteps of her grandfather, civil rights leader and scholar W.E.B. Du Bois. But ...

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 ...

GREAT BARRINGTON — As efforts for a sculpture of W.E.B. Du Bois off Main Street pick up pace, a couple is offering to match donations for the sculpture project that are received this month. Du Bois' ...

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 shocked ...

The U.S. Department of Education apologized Sunday for a tweet that misspelled the name of W.E.B. Du Bois while quoting the late writer, historian and civil rights activist. The tweet spelled his last ...