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Crowds in straw boaters line Lenox Avenue at 135th Street in Harlem during a 1920 parade

A Time to Act and RebuildHonoring Dr. W.E.B. Du Bois Read Now

A PROJECT FOR THE AGES

Photo illustration: Japhet Aryiku in front of the Kwame Nkrumah statue and mausoleum in Accra, Ghana

Sixty-Five Years LaterA Promise to KeepBY JAPHET ARYIKU Read Now

Henry Louis Gates Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor at Harvard University

Sacred GroundThe Renaissance Man Who Would Give Birth to the Civil Rights MovementBY HENRY LOUIS GATES JR. Read Now

A New TimbuktuWhy We Must Build the Great Library and Complete the Encyclopedia AfricanaBY DAVID LEVERING LEWIS Read Now

Daniel Rose, New York City real estate developer and philanthropist

A Giant of the MindWhy We Must Preserve the Legacy of the Father of American Scientific SociologyBY DANIEL ROSE Read Now

Kwame Anthony Appiah, Professor of Philosophy and Law at New York University

Full CircleHow We Can All Honor the Legacy of Freedom Fighter W.E.B. Du BoisBY KWAME ANTHONY APPIAH Read Now

Help Build the W.E.B. Du Bois Museum and Library: four ways to give

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A Project for the Ages: Four Thought Leaders Reflect on the W.E.B. Du Bois Museum in Ghana

Henry Louis Gates Jr., David Levering Lewis, Daniel Rose and Kwame Anthony Appiah on Du Bois’s legacy and the campaign to build a world-class museum and library at his resting place in Accra. Plus Japhet Aryiku and a Letter from the Editor.

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