Beautiful letter from W.E.B. DuBois to his daughter Yolande

When I was a seminary student, I attended one of the great quadrennial conventions of the Student Volunteer Movement. One afternoon some seven hundred of us had a special group meeting, at which a Korean girl was asked to talk to us about her impression of American education. It was an occasion to be remembered. The Korean student was very personab

At the school, she talked about her own childhood and the barriers she’d had to overcome, how education had always provided her a path forward.

I want the future generations of Black contributors to know they’re living a shared experience but with more opportunity than those who preceded them. I want my children to read this and know they are endowed with the inalienable rights to be their most authentic selves without altering, suppressing, or diminishing their Blackness. To the Black pro

In Walter’s home, there is a box with a letter that Napoleon Bonaparte wrote to Toussaint L’Ouverture. And in another, letters Romare Bearden wrote to a lover. There’s a first edition of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, by Harriet Jacobs, which is perhaps the most significant slave narrative written by a woman. His version was the pseudonymou