WEB Du Bois: Rebel with a cause review: A hagiography with hard facts on PBS

This ‘American Masters’ production is never less than laudatory about the intellectual and activist, but doesn’t avoid the ...
The Nation

Abolition Democracy

When Black Reconstruction was published, the ruling consensus on Reconstruction—the period immediately following the Civil War, from 1865 to 1876—was that it had been an outrageous failure, virtually ...
The Atlantic

The Magazine That Helped 1920s Kids Navigate Racism

“It aims to be a thing of Joy and Beauty, dealing in Happiness, Laughter and Emulation, and designed especially for Kiddies from Six to Sixteen. It will seek to teach Universal Love and Brotherhood ...
Berkshire Eagle

W.E.B. Du Bois' only grandchild, Yolande Du Bois Irvin, dies at 89

GREAT BARRINGTON — Yolande Du Bois Irvin, the only grandchild of civil rights leader and scholar W.E.B. Du Bois, died Monday in Fort Collins, Colo. The educator who followed in the footsteps of her ...
The New Yorker

What W. E. B. Du Bois Conveyed in His Captivating Infographics

In 1893, Ida B. Wells published a pamphlet titled “The Reason Why the Colored American Is Not in the World’s Columbian Exposition.” The expo, which lasted for six months, was held in Chicago and was ...
The New York Times

Why I Keep Coming Back to Reconstruction

See more of our coverage in your search results.Encuentra más de nuestra cobertura en los resultados de búsqueda. Add The New York Times on GoogleAgrega The New York Times en Google I write frequently ...