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W. E. B. DuBois’ first senior class earned more than 800K in scholarships

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) - W. E. B. DuBois Academy is saying congratulations and goodbye to its first graduating class on Tuesday. The school was founded in 2018 as an all-male school specifically for ...

10 Inspiring and Educational Nonfiction Books to Read This Black History Month

If you've already read Langston Hughes, W.E.B. DuBois and Zora Neale Hurston, here are 10 nonfiction books not to miss this ...
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W.E.B. DuBois baseball team beating the odds, backed by community

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) - One JCPS team is leaning into its fans in the stands to help them in a different way this year. A GoFundMe for the W.E.B. DuBois Academy baseball team is hoping to help the ...
Pratt Institute

W. E. B. Du Bois’s Data Portraits with Dr. Whitney Battle-Baptiste

Famed sociologist, writer, and Black rights activist W.E.B. Du Bois fundamentally changed the representation of Black Americans with his exhibition of data visualizations at the 1900 Paris Exposition.
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Courtney B. Vance to narrate audio edition of prize-winning W.E.B. Du Bois biography

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NEW YORK (AP) — Award-winning actor Courtney ...
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JCPS breaks ground on new $62 million W.E.B. DuBois Academy campus

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Jefferson County Public Schools broke ground Wednesday on a new W.E.B. DuBois Academy. It was a big celebration as district and school leaders officially kicked off the $62 ...
Hyperallergic

W. E. B. Du Bois's Modernist Data Visualizations of Black Life

For the 1900 Exposition Universelle in Paris, African American activist and sociologist W. E. B. Du Bois led the creation of over 60 charts, graphs, and maps that visualized data on the state of black ...
The Courier-Journal

Construction begins on W.E.B. DuBois's new building. Here's what you should know

Project: W.E.B. DuBois Academy. Location: Between Thomas Jefferson Middle School and the George Unseld Early Learning Center. Description: Jefferson County Public Schools broke ground in April on what ...
Berkshire Eagle

The W.E.B Du Bois statue will be unveiled next weekend. Here's what to know ...

GREAT BARRINGTON — A life-size statue of Civil Rights pioneer W.E.B. Du Bois has been set in place on a curved marble bench outside Mason Public library. But until its formal unveiling next week, the ...
The Columbian

Courtney B. Vance to narrate W.E.B. Du Bois biography

NEW YORK — Award-winning actor Courtney B. Vance will be narrating the first ever-audio edition of one of the most acclaimed literary biographies of the past 30 years, David Levering Lewis’ two-volume ...
Black Enterprise

Courtney B. Vance Narrates W.E.B. Du Bois Biography Audiobook

In Volume One of "W.E.B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race" audiobook, the actor will narrate the first five decades of the activist's life. Tony Award-winning actor Courtney B. Vance will reintroduce the ...