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 ...

GREAT BARRINGTON--The Upper Housatonic Valley African-American Heritage Trail and MCLA welcome Patricia Sullivan, professor of history, University of South Carolina, for a talk on "W.E.B. Du Bois and ...

W.E.B DuBois started The Crisis magazine as an organ of the NAACP. At it's most popular time it took on politics, essays and the writings of creatives like poet Langston Hughes.

In 1903, W.E.B. Du Bois famously began "The Souls of Black Folk" by warning that " [T]he problem of the Twentieth Century is the problem of the color-line." A century later, that problem remains. The ...

A bronze sculpture of W.E.B. Du Bois now sits on a marble bench outside the library in Great Barrington. Strategically and symbolically, organizers who brought the post Civil War scholar back to his ...

In Volume One of "W.E.B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race" audiobook, the actor will narrate the first five decades of the activist's life. Tony Award-winning actor Courtney B. Vance will reintroduce the ...

The annual W.E.B. Du Bois Lecture was held on Thursday, March 23, at the W.E.B. Du Bois Library. Speaker Chad Williams presented and discussed Du Bois’s exploration into the African American ...