w. e. b. du bois
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New Books by Black Authors You Need to Read This March
If the news of the world is just too much right now, these new books are a great alternative.
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The Grammys Have Always Dismissed Black Artists, and We Shouldn’t Expect Better This Year
When the Grammys fail to appreciate the work of black artists, we should not be outraged. We should consider it an honor.
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Why Are Our Black Leaders So Damn Quiet in the Face of Trump’s Destruction?
From Raphael Warnock to Barack Obama, Black leaders have been mum. Better still, who exactly can we call on as Black leaders in 2025?
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Story Behind The People and Event That Started The Harlem Renaissance
On March 21, 1924, a group of Black artists and intellectuals gathered for what would be the start of the Harlem Renaissance
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“The Love Songs of W.E.B Du Bois” by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers Praised by National Books Critics Circle
The award-winning poet has been honored with a fiction prize for her novel.
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PageTurners: ‘Double Consciousness’ and Dual Paths of Persistence at the Forefront of Black Literature
An 800-page love letter dedicated to W.E.B. Du Bois stands in stark contrast to a graphic novel about Rep. John Lewis and a dozen other divergent literary tales
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Of Course, Harvard Had a KKK Chapter on Its Campus
Anytime someone tells you that the East Coast has been a liberal bastion of racial progress they should be reminded that a) that simply isn’t true, and b) there are plenty of examples to prove that such thinking is demonstratively false. Enter an enterprising reporter at Harvard University’s student newspaper The Harvard Crimson, who found…
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Everything I Know About Black History I Learned in the Middle Room
In 1952 my grandfather built a house for his wife and six children in a small South Carolina town. The house had four bedrooms, one bathroom, a dining room and a living room you could enter only if you were dressed in your Sunday best or entertaining company or if somebody had died. After my…