This is the grave of Nina Gomer DuBois. Born in 1870 in Quincy, Illinois, Nina Gomer grew up in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Her father was a cook at a local hotel, just about the best job a Black man could get in that time, even...
w.e.b. dubois
I realized I had never heard W.E.B. DuBois' voice. So while this is an audio recording rather than a film, I am making his 1960 speech, "Socialism and the American.
November 8, 2016 was one of the worst days of my life. I'm sure many of you feel this way as well. Yet in the aftermath, I was very angry.
A good essay reminding us how vitally important W.E.B. DuBois' slave general strike thesis that he delineated in Black Reconstruction remains today. Slaves freed themselves. With this majestic assertion in 1935, W.E.B. Du Bois all but cemented Black Reconstruction as one of the most influential...