W. E. B. Du Bois Institute - News & Events

  Professor Gates on the Incident at his House

THIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT

Fellow Brian Kelly Launches AfterSlavery.com

Looking Ahead

The Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race

The Obama Issue

NOW AVAILABLE ONLINE

Elizabeth Alexander

Poetry Reading at Porter Square Books

New Videos & Articles on "TheRoot.com":

"Black WWII Vets Remembered" - Watch former fellow Alice Mills on NBC's Nightly News with Brian Williams

"Lincoln's Black History"

Garry Wills reviews "Lincoln on Race and Slavery"

Daniel and Joanna Rose endow new printing of "W. E. B. Du Bois: Writings" in honor of Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

"Two Views of Disparate Cultures: Fletcher Fellows Jones and Leeds Lecture on Their Forthcoming Books"      See Video and Photos From the Event

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Receives the 2009 Ralph Lowell Award, Public Television's Top Honor

PRESS RELEASE

"The Harlem Miracle" Op-ed on Professor Roland Fryer's study of charter schools in Harlem

"Does Kanye Dress Too Gay?" by Elizabeth Gates, featuring Professor Marcyliena Morgan

Listen to WBUR's "Here and Now" featuring the W. E. B. Du Bois Society

Rita Dove at the Harvard Book Store

Sonata Mulattica: Poems

Film Screening

Watch Professor William Julius Wilson on

"Black and White Now: Revisiting an Experiment on Race" 

  "John Hope, the Prince Who Refused the Kingdom" by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

PRESS RELEASE: Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s "African American Lives 2" Wins Parents' Choice Award

  "The New Cool Kids" - Article about the W. E. B. Du Bois Society

 

The Harvard Book Store Friday Forum Presents:

 

Michèle Lamont, Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies, Professor of Sociology and African and African American Studies, Harvard University

 

"How Professors Think: Inside the Curious World of Academic Judgment"

 

Friday, April 3rd, 3:00pm --1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge

 

 

Book Party II

William Julius Wilson's New Book, "More Than Just Race: Being Black and Poor in the Inner City"

 

"Why the Poor Stay Poor" Book Review

  "Black America's First Mortgage Crisis" by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Civil Rights Pioneers Honored on Stamps, Highlighting NAACP's 100th Anniversary

Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s new production for PBS, LOOKING FOR LINCOLN, premieres February 11th.  His new Princeton University Press book Lincoln on Race and Slavery is available in stores now.  On Monday, February 9th at 6PM, the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute & the Institute of Politics’ John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum feature a special presentation: Looking for Lincoln: In His Time and Ours - A Conversation on the Meaning of Abraham Lincoln.  In addition, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. has a new book just out, IN SEARCH OF OUR ROOTS: How 19 Extraordinary African Americans Reclaimed Their Past.  See the videos, read the reviews, and visit websites - all below, followed by our spring events calender and other news.

  Television Review | 'Looking for Lincoln'

   "Was Lincoln a Racist?" by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

  "Honest Abe, Maybe; Simple Abe, No"

  "Reexamining the life, and death, of Lincoln"

  PBS, LOOKING FOR LINCOLN, premieres February 11th

   Lincoln in Black and White - A Harvard scholar takes a look at the Great Emancipator

  Film Review: Tina Brown

"This smart, moving, funny, and brilliantly-crafted film is an historic television event, in this the bicentennial year of Lincoln, a year full of hagiography and hero worship. The cult of Lincoln is as strong as ever, even among historians. But Henry Louis Gates, Jr. has taken an unusually . . . (2/7/09)

 10 Questions for Henry Louis Gates Jr. - The Article

You recently wrote about the complex feelings Abraham Lincoln held toward black people. . . (2/5/09)

  10 Questions for Henry Louis Gates Jr. - TIME Video

   Listen to Henry Louis Gates, Jr. The Tom Joyner Show

  Henry Louis Gates, Jr. on "The Colbert Report"

W. E. B. Du Bois' Writings endowed in honor of Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

The volume will be kept permanently in print with a gift from Daniel and Joanna Rose to the Guardians of
American Letters Fund of The Library of America. (more...)

The Father of Black Freemasonry

-The W. E. B. Du Bois Institute has recently given Harvard's Houghton Library a Masonic membership certificate

signed by Prince Hall -- click here to read more!

 “Little Fugitive” directed by Joanna Lipper

Film Screening and Q&A with Joanna Lipper
Brattle Theater
October 4, 2008, 5:30 P.M.
40 Brattle Street, Cambridge

Reception immediately following at the Du Bois Institute, 104 Mount Auburn Street, 3R, Cambridge.

For ticket information, please contact The Brattle Theater at 617.876.6837 or visit www.brattletheater.org.

Co-sponsored with The Brattle Theater and the Guidance Center

CLICK HERE FOR THE PRESS RELEASE

• Professor Roland Fryer Receives $44 Million Grant

New Education R&D Lab Aims to Advance Innovations in Public Education

NEW YORK - A new education research and development institute at Harvard University will identify and advance strategies to improve student achievement in America's public schools, The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation announced today at the Clinton Global Initiative.

 The goal of the Education Innovation Laboratory at Harvard University (EdLabs), funded in part by a $6 million grant from The Broad Foundation, is to foster innovation and objective measurement of the effectiveness of urban K-12 school district programs and practices through rigorous research. ...


EdLabs will be headed by Roland G. Fryer, Jr. who will serve as CEO and lead researcher.  A 30-year-old Harvard economics professor who is the youngest African-American to receive tenure at the prestigious university, Fryer has researched the issue of racial inequality for the past decade.  He has published papers on topics such as the racial achievement gap, the causes and consequences of distinctively black names and affirmative action.  Fryer was recently featured on CNN's series, "Black in America," and has been named by Fortune Magazine as one of America's "most influential minorities."

CLICK HERE FOR THE COMPLETE ARTICLE

CLICK HERE TO VISIT THE EDLABS WEBSITE

• Gates documentary series receives $12M in funding

  Staff file photo Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard News Office

  Three new documentary series to be hosted and co-produced by Henry Louis "Skip" Gates for The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) and the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)

  For more information please visit The Harvard University Gazette Online.

• W. E. B. Du Bois Institute at Harvard University presents its annual Martha's Vineyard Forum Race [Still] Matters Hosted by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Editor-in-Chief, TheRoot.com, Director of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute and Moderated by Veteran Journalist Charlayne Hunter-Gault.

  Event Photos Coming Soon

  

• NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE 2008 ANNUAL CONFERENCE - JULY 30, 2008 TO AUGUST 2, 2008

  Whitney M. Young, Jr. Awards Gala
  Saturday, August 2, 7:30 p.m.

  Legend Award
  This award is presented to individuals whose personal and professional accomplishments have earned them noteworthy distinction in their respective fields.

  Awardees:

  Henry Louis “Skip” Gates, Jr., Ph.D.
  Educator, Scholar, Cultural Critic and Award Winning Author, Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director, W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, Harvard University

  Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Ph.D.
  Award Winning Author Victor S. Thomas Professor of History & African and African American Studies Harvard University

  Nancy Wilson
  Legendary Song Stylist, Grammy Award Winner and Blues, Jazz and R&B Vocalist

  Governor Deval Patrick
  Massachusetts’ first African American Chief Executive Officer

  For more information and videos of the event and award presentation, please visit the National Urban League's 2008 Conference site.
  A PDF of the event highlights is also available.

•  The Moynihan Report Revisited:

  A conference co-sponsored by The American Academy of Political and Social Science, the Harvard University Sociology Department and W.E. B. Du Bois Institute on African and African American Research.

   “Moynihan Report Revisited” Conference podcast pages now available (February 2008):

  http://conference.aapss.org/podcasts.cfm/
  moynihan_conference_podcasts/his_report_and_his_times

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  African American National Biography

  Edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham
  (Oxford | February 4, 2008 | $995.00 |ISBN: 978-0-19-516019-2)

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