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 ...

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 Pan-African scholar's data visualizations about Black American progress after Emancipation have been compiled, for the first time, as a book. “Occupations of Negroes and Whites in Georgia.” With ...

In Volume One of "W.E.B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race" audiobook, the actor will narrate the first five decades of the activist's life. Tony Award-winning actor Courtney B. Vance will reintroduce the ...

For the 1900 Exposition Universelle in Paris, African American activist and sociologist W. E. B. Du Bois led the creation of over 60 charts, graphs, and maps that visualized data on the state of black ...

W.E.B. Du Bois, American sociologist, author, activist and co-founder of the NAACP, died on this day in history on Aug. 27, 1963, in Accra, Ghana at age 95. "He was an activist who was the most ...

After three decades of emancipation, the gains made by African-Americans, those that existed at all, presented a decidedly mixed picture about the state of racial progress in the country. The ...

Project: W.E.B. DuBois Academy. Location: Between Thomas Jefferson Middle School and the George Unseld Early Learning Center. Description: Jefferson County Public Schools broke ground in April on what ...

With bar graphs and pie charts, the sociologist and his Atlanta students demonstrated Black excellence in the face of widespread discrimination Susannah Gardiner - Museums Correspondent At the Paris ...

In case you missed it, during Black History Month the U.S. Department of Education received not so positive attention after the department's Twitter account misspelled the name of the African-American ...

The third installment and first hardcover printing of Griffin's series of WWII espionage novels (originally published under the pseudonym Alex Baldwin) once again ...