THE HARLEM TIMES | SEPT / OCT 2026
Welcome to this historic edition of The Harlem Times, honoring Dr. W.E.B. Du Bois, a pioneer of the U.S. Civil Rights movement, the Harlem Renaissance, Pan-Africanism, and the father of modern sociology.
We cannot overstate how this giant changed the way we view ourselves and others. In The Philadelphia Negro, he showed that a community could be studied with rigor rather than prejudice. In The Souls of Black Folk, he gave us the language of double consciousness. In Black Reconstruction in America, he corrected a history that had been written against us. And through The Crisis, he gave a generation of Harlem’s writers and artists a home.
In this issue we celebrate four thought leaders, Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr., Daniel Rose, Dr. Kwame Anthony Appiah and Dr. David Levering Lewis, who carry that legacy forward. Each, in his own field, reminds us that Du Bois’s work is unfinished, and that it is ours to continue.
That work has never been more urgent. Social media now dominates our discourse on critical issues, and truth is in scarce supply: in how we think, in how we act toward one another, and in how we treat knowledge itself.
That is why we must restore his bungalow in Accra, Ghana, and build the current Centre into a world-class museum and center of learning and scholarship. In the spirit of the Library of Alexandria and the scholars’ enclave of Timbuktu, it can stand as a beacon of light in a highly charged world, where seekers from every nation come together in pursuit of deeper truths.
No single pair of hands can do it alone; only together can we build it.
Paul Jackson
Publisher, The Harlem Times
This Historic Issue was made possible by Todd Rogers, President and CEO of Logical Technology and Research (LTR). Visit www.oneltr.com
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Help Build the W.E.B. Du Bois Museum & Library
Full Layout of the Museum
The W.E.B. Du Bois Museum & Library Complex will rise on nearly four acres at the Du Bois Centre in Cantonments, Accra: a restored Bungalow, a new Mausoleum, a Museum, a Library, a Welcome Center, an Amphitheater, underground parking and a 50-room Scholars Residence. Renderings and floor plans courtesy of the W.E.B. Du Bois Museum Foundation.
