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How Mildred Loving & W.E.B. Du Bois paved the way for marriage equality
This Valentine’s Day, I pay homage to W. E. B. Du Bois’s 1924 novel, Dark Princess, because it highlights the least talked about subject then and now: Black love. Two activities converged for ...
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W.E.B. Du Bois wrote The Souls of Black Folk at Atlanta University
A century before FX’s Atlanta broadcast an experimental take on the Southern African American experience, W.E.B. Du Bois invented the genre with his 1903 book The Souls of Black Folk. Du Bois ...
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W.E.B. Du Bois' Study 'The Philadelphia Negro' Is Still Relevant 125 Years Later – Elijah Anderson Explains Why
Elijah Anderson, Yale University (THE CONVERSATION) W.E.B. Du Bois is widely known for his civil rights activism, but many sociologists arguethat he has yet to receive due recognition as the ...
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Attorneys for former Berkshire Hills Regional School District teacher fight to keep lawsuit alive in ‘Gender Queer’ case
"Though the GB Defendants, again, seek shelter behind the lies contained in the Criminal Complaint that strategy once more ...
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Great Barrington: W.E.B. Du Bois students name town snowplows
The town of Great Barrington’s snowplows have been personalized, thanks to local middle-schoolers. About 150 W.E.B. Du Bois Regional Middle School fifth and sixth grade students, in collaboration with ...
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Great Barrington now boasts its own named snow plows
They took it very seriously,” said Du Bois Middle School teacher Kimberly Cormier, recounting how the students worked to come ...
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Woodrow Wilson and Race in America
1917-1918. Courtesy: NARA As president, Wilson confronted a new generation of African American leaders, men like William Monroe Trotter, W.E.B. Du Bois and Marcus Garvey, who had begun to ...