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In the worst of America’s Jim Crow era, Black intellectual W.E.B. Du Bois found inspiration and hope...
The Conversation via Yahoo News UK· 2 months agoThough progressive politics at the turn of the 20th century called for the protection of America’s...
W.E.B. Du Bois’ study ‘The Philadelphia Negro’ at 125 still explains roots of the urban Black...
The Conversation via Yahoo News UK· 2 months agoOver a century ago, white Philadelphia elites believed the city was going to the dogs – and they...
On its 125th anniversary, W.E.B. Du Bois’ ‘The Philadelphia Negro’ offers lasting lessons on...
The Conversation via Yahoo News UK· 2 months agoDu Bois’ study, published in 1899, detailed the social conditions of poor Black residents of the...
A century ago, W.E.B. Du Bois published a short-lived magazine for Black families. Now it has been...
CNN via Yahoo News UK· 8 months agoW.E.B. Du Bois published the The Brownies’ Book for Black kids in the 1920s. Now, Karida L. Brown...
Target Pulls Black History Month Item from Shelves for Misidentifying 3 Civil Rights Icons
People via Yahoo News UK· 5 months agoThe magnet book incorrectly labels W.E.B. Du Bois, Booker T. Washington and Carter G. Woodson Alex...
How the Black aristocracy of the Gilded Age ushered in a new era of education and freedom
INSIDER via Yahoo News UK· 8 months agoW. E. B. Du Bois with the Fisk University class of 1888.Digital Collections, The New York Public...
Author Q&A: How the impact of a post-Civil War bank failure lingers today
Yahoo Finance· 2 weeks agoAuthor Rodney Brooks unpacks the story of the rapid rise and fall of the Freedman's Bank created in...
Confronting Opera as an “Inherently Colonialist Art Form,” Yuval Sharon Brings New Work to L.A.
The Hollywood Reporter via Yahoo News UK· 3 weeks agoRenowned opera director Yuval Sharon returns to The Industry, the company where he began his career,...
55 vintage photos show what life looked like in the 1920s
Business Insider via Yahoo News UK· 1 month agoWomen at a café in Paris, circa 1920.Branger/Roger Viollet via Getty Images It's no secret that...
Why the future of democracy could depend on your group chats
The Conversation via Yahoo News UK· 1 month agoIs your social media group a budding democracy or someone's fiefdom? John Trumbull's painting,...