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Harvard Gazette: 'Giving Du Bois his due'

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Lawrence Bobo, W.E.B. Du Bois Professor of the Social Sciences and new dean of social science in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, spoke with the Gazette about Du Bois’ place in the history of sociology and about how many of his insights about African...

Harvard Gazette: 'Eight to be honored as W.E.B. Du Bois medalists'

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Athlete and activist Colin Kaepernick and activist and comedian Dave Chappelle are among the eight distinguished people who will receive the W.E.B. Du Bois Medal at the sixth annual Hutchins Center Honors presented by the Hutchins Center for African &...

Celebrating the Intellectual Legacy of W. E. B. Du Bois: A Three-Day Symposium

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CONFERENCE WEBSITE Co-sponsored with Harvard University's Faculty of Arts & Sciences Division of Social Science, the Office of the Vice Provost for Research, the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, and the Departments of Sociology and African &...

Announcing the 2018-2019 Fellows

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The Hutchins Center for African & African American Research Announces its Sixth Class of W. E. B. Du Bois Research Institute Fellows Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the W. E. B. Du Bois Research Institute at...

Hutchins Center Honors presents the W. E. B. Du Bois Medal Ceremony

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Due to current ongoing litigation of Mr. Kaepernick, no video livestream was allowed of his remarks. Below is a transcript of his remarks: Thank you. I'm not quite sure what to say after that. Thank you, that's amazing. As I was sitting there, and I was...

Du Bois, W. E. B.

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By: Dale Edwyna Smith, Jon-Christian Suggs Source: Encyclopedia of African American History, 1896 to the Present: From the Age of Segregation to the Twenty-first Century A summing up... In a career spanning seven decades, Du Bois wrote literally millions...

W.E.B. Du Bois

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AMERICAN SOCIOLOGIST AND SOCIAL REFORMER W.E.B. Du Bois, in full William Edward Burghardt Du Bois, (born February 23, 1868, Great Barrington, Massachusetts, U.S.—died August 27, 1963, Accra, Ghana), American sociologist, historian, author, editor, and...

Civil Rights Activist, Educator, Journalist (1868–1963)

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Who Was W.E.B. Du Bois? Scholar and activist W.E.B. Du Bois was born on February 23, 1868, in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. In 1895, he became the first African American to earn a Ph.D. from Harvard University. Du Bois wrote extensively and was the...

NAACP HISTORY: W.E.B. DUBOIS

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William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (February 23, 1868 – August 27, 1963) was an American civil rights activist, leader, Pan-Africanist, sociologist, educator, historian, writer, editor, poet, and scholar. He was born and raised in Great Barrington...

Announcing the 2018-2019 Fellows

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Announcing the 2018-2019 Fellows The Hutchins Center for African & African American Research Announces its Sixth Class of W. E. B. Du Bois Research Institute Fellows Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the W. E...