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

W.E.B. Du Bois NAACP founder was Morgan Park resident. The life of William Edward Burghardt Du Bois, the civil rights leader, scholar and one of the five founders of the National Association for ...

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.

William Edward Burghardt DuBois, known as W.E.B., founded the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Born in 1868 in Massachusetts, DuBois didn’t experience racial ...

The NAACP 116th National Convention is coming to Charlotte from July 12th through the 16th. With the convention’s theme being ...

EVER since W.E.B. DuBois founded the Crisis in 1910 as the official organ of the NAACP, the magazine has held an honored place among publications dedicated to the struggle for equal rights for all ...

What: David Levering Lewis, “Our Exceptionalist Quagmire: Is There a Way Forward?” ...

It began before it began.This was in 1905 when the great black scholar W.E.B. DuBois called a meeting of prominent black men. They met on the Canadian side of Niagara Falls because hotels in their ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...