The legendary Black leader, who was born just three years after the Civil War ended, gets a long-overdue close-up in 'W.E.B.

PBS’s American Masters series on Tuesday salutes the ground-breaking leadership, inspiration and history of a spectacular ...

Rebel With A Cause’ chronicles the life and times of Du Bois, amplified with dramatic retellings by Common, Jeffrey Wright, ...

Premieres Tuesday, May 19, 2026 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV / Stream with KPBS+ / Encore Wednesday, May 27 at 8 p.m. on KPBS 2.

*W.E.B. Du Bois said it in 1903: “The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.” Over 120 years ...

W.E.B. Du Bois (1868–1963) was one of the most influential intellectuals in the fight for civil rights. Born just a few years ...

This Valentine’s Day, I pay homage to W. E. B. Du Bois’s 1924 novel, Dark Princess, because it highlights the least talked about subject then and now: Black love. Two activities converged for me ...

This ‘American Masters’ production is never less than laudatory about the intellectual and activist, but doesn’t avoid the ...

For the 1900 Exposition Universelle in Paris, African American activist and sociologist W. E. B. Du Bois led the creation of over 60 charts, graphs, and maps that visualized data on the state of black ...

Explore the life and legacy of notable Black scholar and civil rights pioneer W.E.B. Du Bois. From his birth, just five years after the Emancipation Proclamation; to his death, on the eve of the March ...