Booker T. Washington was born into slavery in 1856. He published his autobiography, Up from Slavery, in 1901. The word “up” implies rising from lower to higher. In his writings, Washington frequently ...

GREAT BARRINGTON — Denny Alsop keeps an excerpt of a speech W.E.B. Du Bois on his phone and can pull it up fast. “There’s one piece I just love so much,” said Alsop, a longtime clean-water activist ...

GREAT BARRINGTON — This weekend’s 8th annual festival and holiday in honor of W.E.B. Du Bois will mark 90 years since the Civil Rights giant published “Black Reconstruction,” a pioneering work that ...

On August 27, 1963, an African-American writer, teacher and leader who had renounced his citizenship and immigrated to Ghana died there in relative obscurity. The following day Martin Luther King ...

William Edward Burghardt Du Bois was a cultured writer, political philosopher and activist with enormous intellectual achievements who, over his long life, relentlessly pursued the goal of equality ...

In 1906, from a window in his tiny office on the second floor of what was called Stone Hall, Atlanta University professor W.E.B. Du Bois watched Atlanta burn. The 1906 Atlanta Race Massacre shocked ...

A mural dedicated to Du Bois and the Old Seventh Ward is painted on the corner of 6th and South streets in Philadelphia. Paul Marotta/Getty Images Much of Philadelphia’s elite of the day believed that ...

The U.S. Department of Education apologized Sunday for a tweet that misspelled the name of W.E.B. Du Bois while quoting the late writer, historian and civil rights activist. The tweet spelled his last ...

The University of Massachusetts hosted a virtual lecture titled “Pan-African Brothers: A study of the intellectual and political relationship between W.E.B. Du Bois and George Padmore” on Dec. 7. Adam ...

GREAT BARRINGTON — February in the Berkshires typically brings to mind an array of nature-centric, winter-wonderland pleasures like snowshoeing or skiing, and in the continuing drag of this long, long ...