The University of Massachusetts in Amherst said Friday it would scan, catalog, digitize and put online papers of civil rights movement pioneer W.E.B. Du Bois. The university's W.E.B. Du Bois Library has an estimated 100,000 diaries, letters, photographs ...

Religion and Race W.E.B. Du Bois: American Prophet, by Edward J. Blum. University of Pennsylvania Press. Reviewed by Peter Heltzel This spring, when inflammatory comments by Rev. Jeremiah Wright-Sen. Barack Obama's retiring pastor-dominated talk radio, TV, and the blogosphere, race once again surfaced as a front-burner issue in the 2008 run for the presidency. From slavery ...