💫 Hear all of this. An American politician, yesterday, simply telling the history. Hallelujah. When we elevate the reading of history above the pursuit of mindless hypermilitarism, we’ll be alright.
Some of us remember when this happened. Some of us see we are living through another moment that feels just as urgent.
On the eve of the March on Washington, W. E. B. Du Bois passed away — but his words, his vision, and his warnings still speak to us today.
This Tuesday, May 19, let’s come together for watch parties, conversations, and reflection about who Du Bois was, what he fought for, and what his legacy means for what comes next.
The film brings Du Bois’s words to life through performances by @common , Jeffrey Wright, and Courtney B. Vance, with narration by Viola Davis.
W.E.B. Du Bois: Rebel With a Cause premieres Tuesday, May 19, 2026, at 9 p.m. ET on PBS (check local listings).
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Break it down.
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At the 1900 Paris Expo, W.E.B. Du Bois used data to present a case against racism.
“W.E.B. Du Bois: Rebel With a Cause” premieres Tuesday May 19 at 9/8c on PBS.
Thinking of the boys down at @sta_lacrosse_ . Tough one earlier in the season against these guys. But as one of our coaches back in the day used to say, “They can’t bring their newspaper clippings on the field, fellas.” Leave it all out there tonight, Dawgs, and enjoy!
This is us, in ’83, whoopin’ up on St. Stephen’s. (I shoulda never stopped playing goalie.) Where y’at, @davidgwynnevance , @larry.coughlin.14 ?
So this guy @paulrabil . You may’ve heard of him. He says he played lacrosse. I dunno. Anyway. He’s got me thinking lax lately - like some days, all day. He put a stick back in my hand not long ago, after many years not playing at all. My love for the game and how much it’s meant to me came rushing back. This first pic is from the Summer of ’83. I’d just graduated high school and headed out in a Chevy for Wisconsin with a dude from Middlebury and another from Denison to set up a lacrosse camp for Ojibwe kids on Lac Courte Oreilles rez (“Couderay,” as they say up there), on invitation from Tom Vennum of the Smithsonian. Such good memories. But so this Rabil? We got some ideas. Stay tuned.
(thx @dm4golfing for the photo album shot. I’ll sign that, at the next hang. 😜 teeshirt shoutouts to 93KISS and to Hopkins lax. Rabil claims he played there.)
Do it, boys!! If not now, when?!! #Dawgs
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Another one.
Big time comeback from our guys in the last 3 minutes & jackmcbrady to seal the deal🔥
Boys are headed to the ship!
This means a lot. Not only is the design cool but also because it’s from my community and because libraries give so much, in return for nothing, really, as @fayedunaway said tonight (“Faye”- amazing). Libraries are an example to each of us, right now. Plus, all the books & stuff! It’s all more vital than this post. Still, thank you @bklynlibrary . Hope we did well tonight.
Strong group gathered Monday at The New School for the NYC prem of ‘W.E.B. Du Bois: Rebel with a Cause,’ directed by Peabody Award-winning Rita Coburn and featuring, among others, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning Du Bois biographer, David Levering Lewis. Coming to @pbsamericanmasters on PBS - May 19, 2026 at 9pm ET. Beautiful film. Du Bois’ work is as relevant now as ever.
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Earlier today on #MorningJoe, I spoke with Jeffrey Wright, who is part of the new PBS documentary W.E.B. Du Bois: Rebel with a Cause airing May 19, to reflect on the legacy of W. E. B. Du Bois.
Du Bois was not only a towering intellectual, he was a real activist who helped start the NAACP and challenged both the system and his contemporaries, including Booker T. Washington and Marcus Garvey. He had the courage to stand firm in his convictions and helped lay the foundation for the Civil Rights Movement.
As Jeffrey Wright underscored, Du Bois also corrected a distorted view of American history, particularly around Reconstruction, giving us a clearer understanding of who we are as a nation.
If we do not understand our history, we cannot understand our present or shape our future. Du Bois made sure the truth could not be ignored.
Erich Mühsam’s “Die Barbaren,” written after the start of WWI. He was an anti-militarist and Jewish. Born in Berlin in 1878, he died in a concentration camp in 1934. And he was right. Never knew of him or this poem, ‘til two days ago. Came across an excerpt of “The Barbarians” in Sven Beckert’s “Capitalism.”
