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 ...

W.E.B. Du Bois, American sociologist, author, activist and co-founder of the NAACP, died on this day in history on Aug. 27, 1963, in Accra, Ghana at age 95. "He was an activist who was the most ...

W.E.B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919-1963, David Levering Lewis. Henry Holt, 715 pages, $35.00. David Levering Lewis won the Pulitzer Prize in 1994 forW.E.B. 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 ...

Citing the spirit of Du Bois College House’s founding, residents have celebrated the dorm’s strong sense of community while describing ongoing challenges with amenities and the dorm selection process.

This article originally ran on Feb. 15, 2019. As Black scholar W.E.B. Du Bois told it, the story of one of the most revolutionary concepts in American life began more than 100 years ago in a wooden ...

The W.E.B. Du Bois Library towers over the University of Massachusetts campus at 28 stories tall, an icon of the University’s skyline. Housed on the 25th floor is a collection of over 100,000 items ...

GREAT BARRINGTON — A life-size statue of Civil Rights pioneer W.E.B. Du Bois has been set in place on a curved marble bench outside Mason Public library. But until its formal unveiling next week, the ...