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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...
...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...
President Neil L. Rudenstine unveiled a bust of Du Bois which will be the first likeness of an African American to be placed in Memorial Hall...
Among those reading from Du Bois' work were Dove, Professor of Afro-American Studies and Philosophy K. Anthony Appiah, author Jamaica Kincaid, Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles and Princeton's Woodrow Wilson Professor of Literature Arnold Rampersad...