Books & the Arts / Through Nkrumah’s story, Howard French charts the history of African decolonization and the American civil rights movement. Adom Getachew Accra’s Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Park, built ...

For much of his career, Du Bois famously wrote of the "double consciousness." ...

There were whorls of bright red. Modernist swaths of green and black. A man with a piercing gaze. A young woman with an innocent smile. These visuals are what greeted visitors from across the globe ...

On Saturday, Feb. 21, twelve poets competed at the W.E.B. Du Bois Slam Poetry Invitational at the Carney Family Auditorium in Furcolo Hall. The event was part of the annual Black Artistic Freedom ...

And finally, Alain Locke is considered the Father of the Harlem Renaissance. He's widely known for the concept of the New ...

GREAT BARRINGTON — The arts are at the center of the ninth annual Du Bois Legacy Festival, a three-day celebration honoring civil rights activist and scholar W.E.B. Du Bois, who was born and raised in ...

*American Masters has released the first trailer for “W.E.B. Du Bois: Rebel With A Cause,” a new two-hour documentary set to debut May 19, 2026 at 9 p.m. ET on PBS. The film is directed by Peabody ...

The two-hour film examines Du Bois’s life from his birth, just five years after the Emancipation Proclamation, to his death, on the eve of THE MARCH on Washington in 1963. It also explores how his ...

In honor of Black History Month, Broadway.com is celebrating some of the theater industry’s most influential Black artists. We invited actors who are currently (or soon-to-be) on Broadway to tell us ...

Radcliffe Bailey, “Untitled” (2022), steel shelf and two plaster busts (all photos Jasmine Weber/Hyperallergic) At the entrance of In Our Time: Eleven Artists + W. E. B. Du Bois at Pratt Manhattan ...

Sign up for the Gazette's morning newsletter and get essential news each day. Lee-based nonprofit Multicultural Bridge will host a fundraising event in Great ...

Harvard’s Hutchins Center for African and African American Research awarded seven individuals the W.E.B. Du Bois Medal on Tuesday for their contributions to African and African American culture. The ...