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W. E. B. Du Bois

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Name: W. E. B. Du Bois

First reported 10 hours ago - Updated 10 hours ago - 1 reports

GSCU Film Screenings Focus on Race in Workplace

There is a place to talk about race, diversity, and adversity.The Sallie Ellis Davis Cultural Arts Center at Georgia State College University is offering a few events to encourage the community to talk about issues that are still prevalent.Davis was the ... [Published 13WMAZ - 10 hours ago]

Entities: African-Americans, Ivan Dixon, W. E. B. Du Bois

First reported Jun 14 2013 - Updated Jun 14 2013 - 1 reports

Africa: The War On Africa - U.S. Imperialism and the World Economic Crisis

Capitalism has failed to provide adequate housing, jobs, medical, educational and other services to many people in the West. As well, China's global influence is rising. These are some of the reasons behind the US quest for mineral resources and strategic ... [Published AllAfrica.com - Jun 14 2013]

Entities: Imperialism, United States, Shirley Graham Du Bois, Civil Rights Congress

First reported Jun 13 2013 - Updated Jun 13 2013 - 1 reports

Charter tenants give Memphis school surer future

Few places in Memphis signify the change in public education as clearly as South Side Middle School. When the school year ended this spring, the post-World War II structure built for 2,000 students had fewer than 300.When school begins in less than two ... [Published Individual.com - Jun 13 2013]

Entities: Memphis (Tennessee, United States), W. E. B. Du Bois, Education, Declination, Middle School

First reported Jun 02 2013 - Updated Jun 02 2013 - 1 reports

Robert Kennedy & the Struggle for Racial Justice

Author Patricia Sullivan talks about Robert Kennedy and the civil rights movement of the 1960s. She chronicles his early encounters with racism and the evolution of his politics and principles. Robert Kennedy served as U.S. Attorney General during his ... [Published C-SPAN Recent Events - Jun 02 2013]

Entities: Robert Kennedy, Patricia Sullivan, W. E. B. Du Bois

First reported May 29 2013 - Updated May 29 2013 - 1 reports

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

NAACP Defends Its Economic Leadership

"To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships."Those were the words of W.E.B. Du Bois in 1903, six years before he co-founded the NAACP to ensure the "political, educational, social and economic ... [Published HighBeam Research - May 29 2013]

Entities: National Association for the Advancement of Col..., Leadership, W. E. B. Du Bois

First reported May 29 2013 - Updated May 29 2013 - 2 reports

University of Massachusetts Amherst

Fulbright Takes Umass Amherst Doctoral Student to Australia to Study Aboriginal Movement Roots in Black Power

AMHERST, Mass. -- The following information was released by the University of Massachusetts - Amherst: Alex Carter, a fourth-year doctoral candidate in the W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, ... [Published HighBeam Research - May 29 2013]

Entities: Black Power, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Australia

First reported May 28 2013 - Updated May 29 2013 - 6 reports

Harvard College

Harvard College dean to step down

Harvard announced today that the Dean of Harvard College — Evelynn M. Hammonds, the first woman and first African American to hold the position — will step down this summer, following close on the heels of a recent scandal over private email searches ... [Published Yale Daily News - May 29 2013]

Entities: Hammonds, Harvard College, Harvard University

First reported May 27 2013 - Updated May 27 2013 - 1 reports

After 50 Years, Unity Is Still An African Dream

If one were to ask people in the streets of any African capital to name a union of states that readily comes to mind, they are likely to mention the United Nations, the United States of America and possibly the European Union. And the African Union? Oh ... [Published The Star (Kenya) - May 27 2013]

Entities: Organization of African Unity, Kwame Nkrumah, African Union

First reported May 24 2013 - Updated May 24 2013 - 1 reports

Tourism Ministry Marks Du Bois' Death Anniversary

An exhibition and bazaar to mark the 50th anniversary of the death of Dr W.E.B Du Bois was on Thursday opened by the Minister of Tourism, Culture and Creative Arts in Accra.The exhibition is part of a three-day activity scheduled to commemorate the passing ... [Published Peace FM - May 24 2013]

Entities: W. E. B. Du Bois, Tourism, Creativity, Invention, Accra

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 1 reports

Obama Offers Special Message To LGBT Community At College Graduation

President Barack Obama made sure that his speech during the spring 2013 commencement ceremony at Georgia's Morehouse College was inclusive.The Atlanta-based historically black private college is exclusively for men, but Obama spontaneously referenced ... [Published AOL Black Voices - May 21 2013]

Entities: LGBT, Barack Obama, Gay, Lesbian, African-Americans

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 1 reports

Somaliland: The True Pan-Africanist

Somaliland is the only African country that believed and sacrificed for the noble Pan-Africanism philosophy that promulgated for betterment and the common-cause of people with an African heritage, an idea espoused by Sylvester Williams championed by W.E.B. ... [Published Somaliland Times - May 22 2013]

Entities: W. E. B. Du Bois, Somalia, Gambia, Eritrea, Senegal

First reported May 20 2013 - Updated May 20 2013 - 1 reports

Somaliland: The True Pan-Africanist

We apologize to the writer of and our readers for the delay in publishing this article which was submitted a couple of days ago.-Editor By: Geleh Ali Gulaid Somalilandsun - Somaliland is the only African country that believed and sacrificed for the ... [Published Somaliland Sun - May 20 2013]

Entities: W. E. B. Du Bois, Advocate

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Robert Kennedy & the Struggle for Racial Ju... [Published C-SPAN Recent Events - Jun 02 2013]
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Black Harvard College Dean to Resign Amid Contr... [Published Afro American Newspaper - Jun 01 2013]
Pan-Africanism and African renaissance [Published Mmegi Online - May 31 2013]
The way out of the black poverty cycle [Published Washington Post - May 31 2013]
Through June 6: JFK photo exhibit [Published US Embassy Germany: Berlin - May 31 2013]
Exposing the invisible: African Women and the OAU [Published Pambazuka News - May 31 2013]
Hammonds to Step Down as Dean in July Harvard C... [Published HighBeam Research - May 30 2013]
GSAS honors four alumni [Published Harvard University Gazette - May 30 2013]
GSAS honors four alumni [Published Harvard Gazette - May 30 2013]
NAACP Defends Its Economic Leadership [Published HighBeam Research - May 29 2013]
Fulbright Takes Umass Amherst Doctoral Student ... [Published HighBeam Research - May 29 2013]
Fulbright Takes University of Massachusetts Amh... [Published HighBeam Research - May 29 2013]
OAU paved way for a self-reliant, unified Africa [Published BDlive - May 29 2013]

Blogs

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The Daily Agenda for Monday, June 17 [Published Box Turtle Bulletin - Jun 17 2013] TODAY IN HISTORY: 45 YEARS AGO: Premiere of Documentary of Drag Queen Competition: 1968. The documentary The Queen makes its premiere in a theater in New York City. The film, shot almost entirely with hand-held cameras, is a primitive pre-Stonewall ...
Observing this Memorial Day [Published Harvard University Press Publicity Blog - May 24 2013] Regular readers of this blog shouldn’t be surprised to learn that we’ve chosen David Blight’s Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory as one of the 100 significant books we’re highlighting during this year of our centennial. In addition to ...
Chinua Achebe: A Poet of Global Encounters [Published {AFRICA IS A COUNTRY} - Apr 05 2013] The first time I met Chinua Achebe I had just started teaching at Bard College, where I had been hired as Director of Africana Studies. I saw Chinua one evening at a campus event and nervously approached to introduce myself. I did not expect his humor ...
Marcus Garvey’s Africa [Published {AFRICA IS A COUNTRY} - Mar 07 2013] Late last year I had the opportunity to review College of William and Mary History Professor Robert Vinson’s remarkable new book, The Americans Are Coming! Dreams of African American Liberation in Segregationist South Africa. Vinson details both ...
W.E.B. DuBois and the Making of the Encyclopedi... [Published 3quarksdaily - Feb 14 2013] Kwame Anthony Appiah in Blackpast: Between 1909 and his death in 1963, W E. B. Du Bois, the Harvard trained historian, sociologist, journalist, and political activist, dreamed of editing an "Encyclopaedia Africana." He envisioned a comprehensive ...

Audio/Video

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'Sho Baraka' raps about his latest album [Published CNN.com - Video - Mar 20 2013]

Press Releases

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JACKIE ROBINSON FOUNDATION TO HONOR BRUCE RATNE... [Published CisionWire - English - Feb 20 2013]
Glenn Hutchins Receives Award From Civil Rights... [Published PR Newswire: General Business - Jan 30 2013]