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In 1903, W. E. B. Dubois wrote The Souls of Black Folks. One of the text's central themes is how it feels to be a problem. He was speaking to the dilemma in which African-Americans found themselves around the turn of the century. In 1997, the issue of...
Harper Hines said she became acquainted, often intimately, with well-known civil-rights advocates such as Marshall, Langston Hughes and W.E.B. DuBois, class of 1890, through her involvement with the NAACP, the Red Cross, the Works Progress Administration, the YWCA and other organizations.
And at the moment three classics of the American postwar theater are enjoying simultaneous London revivals. Davies (who eventually did direct an acclaimed 1988 National Theatre production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof) has staged a hit revival of Edward Albee's masterpiece, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf...
You'll read, or at least buy, 14 books connected to "the contemporary meaning of the democratic idea," from Eugene O'Neill's play "The Iceman Cometh," to The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. DuBois.
While many students spent the summer working in air-conditioned office buildings, DuBois Professor of the Humanities Henry Louis Gates Jr. traversed eastern Africa with a BBC camera crew at his heels.