Podcast Episodes featuring W.E.B. Du Bois

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Maya Angelou, Elizabeth Alexander, and Arnold Rampersad — W.E.B. Du Bois and the American Soul

On Being with Krista Tippett - April 04, 2019 08:49 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 9.6K ratings
A prolific writer on sociology, history, economics, and politics, W.E.B. Du Bois was one of the most extraordinary minds of American and global history. His life traced an incredible arc; he was born three years after the end of the Civil War and died on the eve of the March on Washington. In 1...

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Episode 110: Chike Jeffers discusses the social and political philosophy of W.E.B. Du Bois

Elucidations - December 15, 2018 14:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 161 ratings
What is the best way forward for a group of people fairly recently freed from slavery? Booker T. Washington emphasized economic enfranchisement, whereas W.E.B. Du Bois thought it was necessary to achieve political enfranchisement alongside economic enfranchisement. Join us as our guest discusses ...

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Gary Dorrien, “The New Abolition: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Black Social Gospel” (Yale UP, 2018)

New Books Network - April 18, 2018 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 123 ratings
The black social gospel–formulated and given voice by abolitionists and post-reconstruction Black men and women–took the United States by storm in the last quarter of the nineteenth century. Black Christians were not the only ones involved in the black social gospel, though. Rev. Dr. Gary Dorrien...

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Bill V. Mullen, “W.E.B. Du Bois: Revolutionary Across the Color Line,” (Pluto Press, 2016)

New Books Network - December 17, 2016 13:35 - 52 minutes ★★★★ - 123 ratings
Born just five years after the abolition of slavery, W. E. B. Du Bois died the night before Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his I Have a Dream speech at the March on Washington in 1963. In the many decades between, W. E. B. Du Bois contributed as much to the political and social advancement of ...