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A century ago, W.E.B. Du Bois published a short-lived magazine for Black families. Now it has been...
CNN via Yahoo News· 7 months agoW.E.B. Du Bois published the The Brownies’ Book for Black kids in the 1920s. Now, Karida L. Brown...
W.E.B. Du Bois’ study ‘The Philadelphia Negro’ at 125 still explains roots of the urban Black...
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 1 month agoOver a century ago, white Philadelphia elites believed the city was going to the dogs – and they...
120 Inspiring Black History Month Quotes
Parade via AOL· 4 months agoDr. Martin Luther King, Jr. addresses a crowd in Jan. 1965. February is Black History Month and we've rounded up 120 inspiring Black History Month quotes...
Why quoting my book on racial justice is getting Christian college professors fired
The Courier Journal via Yahoo News· 12 months agoIn his classic book, The Souls of Black Folk, renowned Black scholar, W. E. B. Du Bois, begins by...
How the Black aristocracy of the Gilded Age ushered in a new era of education and freedom
Business Insider via Yahoo News· 7 months agoW. E. B. Du Bois with the Fisk University class of 1888.Digital Collections, The New York Public...
The Perils and Promise of America's Third Reconstruction
Time via Yahoo News· 2 years agoCredit - Illustration by Ajubel Studio for TIME W.E.B. Du Bois is perhaps best known for introducing...
William Strickland, a longtime civil rights activist, scholar and friend of Malcolm X, has died
theGrio via AOL· 1 month agoAmilcar Shabazz, a professor in the W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies at University of Massachusetts, said Strickland followed […] The post William Strickland, a longtime civil ...
Margaret Sanger Did Not Advocate 'Exterminating the Negro Population'
Snopes via Yahoo News· 9 months agoLibrary of Congress Catalog/Wikimedia Commons A quote from birth control advocate and sometime...
Commentary: Go ahead and major in English. You'll be fine!
LA Times via Yahoo News· 1 year agoFear not your Shakespearean ambitions. It worked for Colin Firth and Judi Dench in 1998's...
Why is Black History Month celebrated in February?
CBS News via Yahoo News· 4 months agoBOSTON - It's a question often asked this month with an answer, not always known. Why is Black History Month in February? "That's a great question, and...