Fourth Annual Du Bois Forum Roundtable & Celebration at Jacob’s Pillow
At this fourth-annual gathering of the Du Bois Forum at Jacob’s Pillow, leading writers and artists will reflect upon the intellectual and artistic traditions that W.E.B. Du Bois shaped and the urgency of this work in our current historical moment. The event will honor the inaugural Du Bois awardees, including former Governor and First Lady […]
2025 Du Bois Forum & Statue Unveiling: Celebrated Gathering of Writers, Scholars, & Artists Returns to the Berkshires
The Du Bois Forum is pleased to announce its fourth annual gathering, set to take place July 18-20, 2025. Now is the accepted time, not tomorrow, not some more convenient season. It is today that our best work can be done and not some future day or future year.” — W. E. B. Du BoisGREAT […]
Why Honoring Black Intellectual And Artistic Traditions Matters
Each summer for the past three years, Black intellectuals and artists have gathered in The Berkshires for The Du Bois Forum, an event that honors the legacy of sociologist and historian W.E.B. Du Bois and advances social change and creative production. Founded by Kendra Field and Kerri Greenidge of Tufts University, along with Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David Levering Lewis, the Forum serves as an important space […]
In the Berkshires, where W.E.B. Du Bois was born, a gathering of Black intellectuals and artists
In 1916, W.E.B. Du Bois convened a group of Black scholars and writers to discuss the issues of the day at Troutbeck, the Hudson Valley estate of NAACP cofounder Joel Spingarn. Du Bois had intended the meeting to become a regular gathering, but he ultimately did not convene another such meeting at Troutbeck until 1933, […]
The Du Bois Forum Announces Third Annual Gathering to Honor Black Intellectual and Artistic Traditions | EIN Presswire
The Du Bois Forum is pleased to announce its third annual gathering, set to take place on July 19-20, 2024
Du Bois Forum celebrates teachings and legacy of author David Levering Lewis | The Berkshire Edge
The Du Bois Forum, at Jacob’s Pillow on Friday, July 7, 2023, honored two-time Pulitzer Prize winning author and historian David Levering Lewis.
A Mighty Mission | Berkshire Magazine
Written by Kendra Taira Field W.E.B. DU BOIS AND THE BLACK BERKSHIRES, THEN AND NOW I FIRST CAME TO KNOW W.E.B. Du Bois as a young person. Driving through western Massachusetts in the 1980s, my dad would pull off in Great Barrington, and point out its significance to me as Du Bois’s homeplace. David Levering […]
Heritage and history found along the journey with the African American Trail Project | Boston Globe
Written by James Sullivan Walls are divisive. There’s this side and there’s that side. We’ve exhausted an awful lot of energy in recent years on the need for walls: debating which people are free to cross the line between one place and another, and which are not. Sometimes, however, a wall can be a bridge. […]
Black History Trail Makes 200 Stops Across Massachusetts | The New York Times
Written by Katharine Q. Seelye MEDFORD, Mass. — During Black History Month, Massachusetts likes to point out its reputation as the enlightened 19th-century hub of the abolition movement. The state was one of the first to end slavery, long before the 13th Amendment formally banned it nationwide in 1865. Less well known is that Massachusetts […]