Tag: W.E.B. Du Bois

The Tenth is a new salon-style social club in Atlanta, founded by married couple and longtime Atlantans Clint and Nasim Fluker. Part of the Flukers’ mission is to facilitate discussions that highlight important perspectives on today’s issues. The couple created The Tenth as a space for the “intellectually curious and creative,” as the club’s website puts it. It is a gathering place for people seeking meaningful conversation, deeper connections in their community, and initiation into the city’s arts and culture scene.

“Designed for all children, but especially for ours.” Thus read the inscription on the front page of the Brownies’ Book, a children’s periodical dreamt up by former Atlanta University professor W.E.B. Du Bois and read in homes across the country from 1920 to 1921. Now, Emory professor Dr. Karida L. Brown and her husband, artist Charly Palmer, have created a new iteration with a lusciously updated design that remains true to Du Bois’s original concept.

Whoever controls the narrative has the power. In 1900, when the renowned sociologist, author, and Atlanta University professor W.E.B. Du Bois presented his groundbreaking The Exhibition of American Negroes at the Paris Exposition, he painted a revolutionary picture of what it meant to be Black in America.

There’s no single, clear reason why, in late 1943, Atlanta University president Rufus Clement unceremoniously fired W.E.B. Du Bois, the university’s most acclaimed academic.