Last month, The W. E. B. Du Bois Museum Foundation unveiled plans and renderings for the new W. E. B. Du Bois Museum Complex in Accra, Ghana, designed by Sir David Adjaye, the highly respected architect of the Smithsonian Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C.The expansion, transformation, and repositioning of the […]
Photos: W.E.B. Du Bois Museum Foundation NEW YORK, NY September 19, 2022 The W. E. B. Du Bois Museum Foundation Sunday unveiled plans and renderings for the new W. E. B. Du Bois Museum Complex in Accra, Ghana, designed by Sir David Adjaye, the internationally acclaimed architect of the Smithsonian Museum of African American History and Culture. The expansion,
Phules, Ambedkar and Du Bois: For a just world without caste or race
Manipulation of truth continues to incite division, violence, and oppression. As ever, the voices of Phule, Du Bois and Ambedkar ring true. Their intellectual arguments, political positioning, activism, bold and uncompromising stand on securing human rights for all people remain relevant for the transformation of societies everywhere, writes P. Dayanandan
Casteism in India and racism in the USA are a disgrace to human dignity and impediment to progress. Both are products of twisted minds justifying every form of oppression and violence to seek and sustain power and wealth. Great men and women of vision and compassion fought against such prejudice, empowered the weak, and showed humanity a path of hope. Two such anti-caste icons of India, Mahatma Jotirao Phule and Babasaheb Ambedkar, appreciated the struggles of antiracism leaders of America. Ambedkar corresponded with W.E.B. Du Bois. How their attitudes and work r
all right. i have to say something very important. i think there have been three or four great intellectual accomplishments in terms of reference works in the history of our people, one would be the edit of the encyclopedia africana and the national biography and edit of bartlet s black quotations, because i didn t have anything to do with it. this woman did it. it took her seven years and we should thank the lord for her great accomplishment and her imagination and her vision. tour e, this is something i dreamed about doing one day or hoping it would be done. when they approached me and asked me to write the introduction, it was a great honor. brilliantly done. i would have left you out, but other than that, it s fine. to that point of editing this book and selecting from all of the incredible quotations, you have quotes from a whole range of thinkers of poeters and