Black Agenda Report
Black Agenda Report
News, commentary and analysis from the black left.

  • Home
  • Africa
  • African America
  • Education
  • Environment
  • International
  • Media and Culture
  • Political Economy
  • Radio
  • US Politics
  • War and Empire

The Year of W.E.B. Dubois
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
27 Feb 2018
🖨️ Print Article

Mumia Abu Jamal, the nation’s best known political prisoner, marked the 150th anniversary of W.E.B. Dubois’ birth with a special message. “For today’s scholars in history and sociology, his texts remain required reading, just as Freud’s remain central to modern psychology,” said Abu Jamal, in an essay for Prison Radio. The Philadelphia City Council has named 2018 “The Year of W.E.B. Dubois,” who early in his career as a scholar-activist authored a groundbreaking study of the city’s Black population.

W.E.B. Dubois

Related Podcasts

Dubois: Activist and Educator
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Dubois: Activist and Educator
27 February 2018
Philadelphia’s Saturday Free School kicked off a year of activities celebrating WEB Dubois’ life and work with a symposium at the Church of th
Philadelphia to Celebrate Dubois Birthday
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Philadelphia to Celebrate Dubois Birthday
24 October 2017
Next year marks the 150th birthday of the great Black scholar-activist W.E.B. Dubois.

More Stories


  • Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright
    The Symone Sanders Minstrel Show Demonstrates the Desolation of the Black Misleadership Class
    23 Sep 2026
    Symone Sanders interview with Hasan Piker exposed her as a bad-faith interlocutor who uses identity as a cudgel while remaining silent on the poverty, pollution, and police violence that plague the…
  • North-South Project for People(s)-Centered Human Rights
    Fergie Chambers Extradition: A People(s)-Centered Human Rights Analysis
    23 Sep 2026
    The U.S. extradition request for Fergie Chambers is an attempt to use Spanish courts to extend a domestic repression campaign against political opposition.
  • Jacqueline Luqman
    The Perfect Victim Narrative Applied To Foreign Policy Only Keeps U.S. Imperialism Alive
    23 Sep 2026
    The demand to call out alleged crimes in Iran or Cuba while those countries face annihilation from the U.S. and Israel is a refusal to see those people as human beings worthy of protection.
  • Charisse Burden-Stelly, PhD
    Twentieth Century Red Scares in the United States
    23 Sep 2026
    Red Scares are a recurring feature of the U.S. political tradition aimed at criminalizing anticapitalist politics through accusations of foreign infiltration and conspiracy. The NSPM-7 and the report…
  • Abayomi Azikiwe
    Niger Thwarts Attempted Coup Amid Ongoing Threats to the Alliance of Sahel States
    23 Sep 2026
    For several years, three landlocked West African states have undergone political transformations designed to turn the page on French neo-colonialism.
  • Load More
Subscribe
connect with us
about us
contact us