In 1919, Fauset arrived in the New York City neighborhood of Harlem as the new literary editor of The Crisis, the leading publication for Black writers founded by W.E.B Du Bois. Fauset ...
W.E.B. Du Bois' Study 'The Philadelphia Negro' at 125 ... I taught a summer course at Northwestern University about Du Bois and, like so many young Black scholars of my generation, I was deeply ...
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 ...
In marking 90 years since the publication of Du Bois’s groundbreaking work "Black Reconstruction," this year’s festival will ...
It’s a distant cry from what the neighborhood looked like 125 years ago when sociologist and civil rights activist W.E.B. Du Bois published “The Philadelphia Negro: A Social Study.” ...
In 2013, the widely acclaimed artist Carrie Mae Weems — a charismatic artist, activist and educator, known for installations, videos and photographs that invite the viewer to reflect on issues of race ...