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W.E.B. Du Bois, Black History Month and the importance of African American studies
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 1 year agoScholar-activist W.E.B. DuBois in 1946. Underwood Archives/Getty ImagesThe opening days of Black...
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...
On its 125th anniversary, W.E.B. Du Bois’ ‘The Philadelphia Negro’ offers lasting lessons on...
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 1 month agoDu Bois’ study, published in 1899, detailed the social conditions of poor Black residents of the...
In the worst of America’s Jim Crow era, Black intellectual W.E.B. Du Bois found inspiration and hope...
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 3 weeks agoThough progressive politics at the turn of the 20th century called for the protection of America’s...
Tune Into Oprah’s Book Club Author Talks with These Podcasts
The Oprah Magazine via Yahoo News· 1 year agoTune Into Oprah’s Book Club Author PodcastsGetty Images Oprah’s Book Club has been highlighting...
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...
Life Expectancy Proves How Far Black Americans Have Come
Time via Yahoo News· 2 years agoCredit - Getty Images In August 2022, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that...
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 ...
From Taylor Swift to Elon Musk to Joyce Carol Oates: Books for holiday gift giving
Detroit Free Press via Yahoo News· 6 months agoYes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus and he has plenty of room on his sleigh for books. Books make...
Black History Month at Carlsbad Library
Carlsbad Current-Argus via Yahoo News· 1 year agoFebruary is Black History Month. Carter G. Woodson a Harvard-trained historian, like W. E. B. Du Bois before him, believed that truth could not be denied and that reason would prevail over prejudice ...