Residents and visitors to Great Barrington can now take a seat on a marble bench, next to a life-size statue of the ...

The town has been celebrating Du Bois with events during the Seventh Annual W.E.B. Du Bois Legacy Festival and Du Bois Legacy Day Observance. The festival will continue until March 6. Considered the ...

A portrait of W.E.B. Du Bois from 1918. handout Presented at the 1900 Paris Exposition, this graphic charts the proportion of freemen and slaves among Black Americans. W. E. B. Du Bois/Library of ...

When W.E.B Du Bois penned one of his most important essays in 1903 for the book, “The Negro Problem,” he was teaching at Atlanta University and witnessing firsthand the dawn of a new ...

On this day in history, Aug. 27, 1963, W.E.B. Du Bois — who grew up in Massachusetts and became a prominent sociologist, author, activist and co-founder of the NAACP — died at age 95.

The bronze sculpture of a seated Du Bois, created by Richard Blake, was commissioned by the W.E.B. Du Bois Sculpture Project, a nonprofit made up of independent citizens who have worked on the project ...

At the height of World War I, W.E.B. Du Bois published a controversial 1918 editorial, “ Close Ranks,” in the NAACP publication the Crisis.

W.E.B. DU BOIS: The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919-1963. By David Levering Lewis. Henry Holt, $35. HE was a man of aristocratic bearing, an arrogant crusader for the rights of ...

W.E.B. Du Bois. A new monument depicting the sociologist, writer, and civil rights activist is planned for his birthplace of Great Barrington. Keystone/Getty Images ...

The AJC Sepia W.E.B. Du Bois Reading List W.E.B. Du Bois’ publishing history spans from his 1896 Harvard dissertation to books about African colonialism well into the 1960s.

Alongside a hardware store in Great Barrington, Mass. – population: 8,000 – a graffiti mural contains a quote by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.: “History cannot ignore W.E.B. Du … ...

The Department of Education misspelled W.E.B. Du Bois’s name in a tweet Sunday honoring the iconic civil rights activist and author. “Education must not simply teach work – it must teach life.