A mural dedicated to Du Bois and the Old Seventh Ward is painted on the corner of 6th and South streets in Philadelphia. Paul Marotta/Getty Images Much of Philadelphia’s elite of the day believed that ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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' ...

The University of Massachusetts hosted a virtual lecture titled “Pan-African Brothers: A study of the intellectual and political relationship between W.E.B. Du Bois and George Padmore” on Dec. 7. Adam ...

H.E. Nàna Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, president of the Republic of Ghana, plans to construct a state-of-the-art museum complex honoring civil rights pioneer Dr. W.E.B Du Bois who spent the last years of ...

Nearly 120 years ago, at the 1900 Exposition Universelle in Paris, a display from the United States put the first post-slavery generation of African Americans on the world stage. The “Exhibit of ...

GREAT BARRINGTON — February in the Berkshires typically brings to mind an array of nature-centric, winter-wonderland pleasures like snowshoeing or skiing, and in the continuing drag of this long, long ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jonathon Keats is a writer and artist who critiques museum exhibits. This article is more than 4 years old. On Sunday, September ...