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Happy Bornday & Rest In Power to W.E.B. Dubois:

one of the most important intellectuals and activist of the modern world. In 1895 he became the first African-American to receive his PhD from Harvard. He co-founded the NAACP when it mattered, opposed Booker T Washington’s “yes massa” assimilationisms with the Niagara Movement/Collective, and wrote the seminal The Souls of Black Folk, all by 1910. Around this time Dubois was solidifying his ideas that capitalism and racism were inextricably linked and that niether could be truly be eradicated while the other existed; and that truth was worthless without action. By the 20s through his self-pulished and funded jounal-mag The Crisis he supported the Harlem Renaissance while also going after the problematic aspects of Marcus Garvey’s back to Africa movement . By 1935 he was a hardline Marxist who wrote one of the most important historical text on race, power and capitalism: Black Reconsrtuction In America. Also, while Dubois built bridges/dialogues with Commmunist and Socialist he was highly critical of their inability to have people of color in positions of power within various organizations and trying to lead communities of color in their battles for self determination. By the 50s, like any true Leftist, Macarthyism would try to bury Dr. Dubois’ word with slander and litigation, which caused him to miss the Anti-Imperialist Third World Liberation Bandung Conference in Indonesia in 1955. By now DuBois had backed off his ideas that a “talented tenth” was needed to liberate the Black community, and that Blacks joining the armed forces would help lead Blacks and Whites towards integration. As liberals and his former NAACP colleagues turned their back on him, Dr. Dubois stayed true to ideas and eventually regained his Visa to move to Ghana were he would spend his last years.