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Poet Laureate Rita Dove, Nobel Prize-winning author Wole Soyinka and President Neil L. Rudenstine all praised W.E.B. Du Bois yesterday in what speakers said was a long overdue recognition of the pioneering scholar.
The event, sponsored by the Afro-American Studies Department and the Du Bois Institute, marked the 125th anniversary of Du Bois' birth and the 90th anniversary of the publication of his landmark collection of essays, The Souls of Black Folk.
Henry Louis Gates Jr., Du Bois professor of the humanities and chair of the Afro-American Studies Department, welcomed the audience of 200 to Memorial Church to "celebrate the life and works" of W.E.B. Du Bois.
Mallory Professor of Pathology Ramzi S. Cotran, Professor of Human Development and Behavior Felton James Earls, Du Bois Professor of the Humanities Henry Louis Gates Jr., Public Service Professor A. Leon Higginbotham Jr., and Watts Professor of Health Care Policy Barbara J. McNeil were all inducted as fellows of the...
Though the pursuit of economic power has been advocated by virtually every black leader from W.E.B. Du Bois to Jesse Jackson and Louis Farrakhan, it was never as high on the black agenda as the righting of social wrongs by marches, boycotts and voter registration. The startling revelation of the...