Dubois: Activist and Educator | Black Agenda Report

Dubois: Activist and Educator

Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford

27 Feb 2018

🖨️ Print Article

Philadelphia’s Saturday Free School kicked off a year of activities celebrating WEB Dubois’ life and work with a symposium at the Church of the Advocate. “Dubois developed some of the deepest theories when it comes to understanding the human condition,” said public school teacher and Free School activist Ismael Jimenez. “He’s measuring your soul against the tape of a world that looks on with amused contempt and pity.” Black Agenda Report executive editor Glen Ford told the crowd: “Dubois believed that Black labor was the central force of the Black movement, and was also the most revolutionary component of labor in the United States.”

W.E.B. Dubois

More Stories

Jim DeBrosse
Who profited off 7 October?
08 Oct 2025
Unusual stock market activity is one of the indicators that the Israeli government had prior knowledge of the Hamas action which took place on October 7, 2023.
Robert Inlakesh
Hamas, Trump, Israel, and Who Accepted What Ceasefire – Analysis
08 Oct 2025
As it stands, there is no chance that a ceasefire can be implemented, according to the current parameters of the Trump-Netanyahu plan.
Chris Gilbert , Cira Pascual Marquina
A Story of Resistance and Renewal: The Palmarito Afro-Descendant Commune (Part I)
08 Oct 2025
Afro-Venezuelans discuss syncretism, anti-colonial resistance, and community organization on the southern shore of Lake Maracaibo.
Carlos Ron
“We will blow you out of existence”: Trump’s Caribbean spectacle
08 Oct 2025
What is being carried out against Venezuela is not an operation against drug trafficking but rather a regime change operation.
Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist
Trump's Gaza plan is 'pure fantasy'
08 Oct 2025
Ajamu Baraka joined RT News on October 3, 2025, to discuss Donald Trump's Gaza "peace plan."