Now in its third year, The Du Bois Forum seeks to serve as "an incubator, a meeting place, and a resting place." ...

On this day in history, Aug. 27, 1963, W.E.B. Du Bois — who grew up in Massachusetts and became a prominent sociologist, author, activist and co-founder of the NAACP — died at age 95.

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.

"It has been a long time coming," Du Bois Project Board of Directors member DuBois Thomas said. "I am really excited to get ...

WJBF – Did you know that the NAACP began due to the early racial violence in the early 20th Century? A group of African-American leaders, including W.E.B. DuBois and Ida B. Wells, joined ...

The unveiling of the bronze sculpture of a seated Du Bois on a curved marble bench around renovated library steps will be held at 2 p.m. July 19 outside Mason ...

Jeffrey Peck, the great-grandson of NAACP co-founder W.E.B. DuBois, spoke before an audience of more than 100 at the Douse Community Center in Killeen on Friday.

A recent book by Chad L. Williams, "The Wounded World: W.E.B. Du Bois and the first World War," examines the Great Barrington native’s enormous struggle to document Black participation in that ...

At the height of World War I, W.E.B. Du Bois published a controversial 1918 editorial, “Close Ranks,” in the NAACP publication the Crisis. In it, he counseled his readers to “forget our ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: W.E.B. DuBois is a Civil Rights Leader with one video in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 2009 Public Affairs Event. Scholar and political activist W.E ...

Some of the NAACP leaders are familiar, including W.E.B. Du Bois and Thurgood Marshall, but Walter White, head of the NAACP from 1929 to 1955, has been all but forgotten.