Got any New Year's Day plans? Cancel them! This is the only family- friendly event you need to attend. It's a benefit for Hilltown Families, Easthampton Family Center & Flywheel and features beats by DJ Youthelectronix, music by Mr. Liam and pancakes! facebook.com/jermina.smythe…

A little less complaint and whining & a little more dogged work & manly striving, would do us more credit than a thousand civil rights bills

Editorial: Here's why W.E.B. Du Bois still matters nbcnews.to/2lohp40

Immigrant-led organizations are leading the charge of resistance on #MayDay2017, get involved: MayDayActions.com #NoBanNoWallNoRaids

Town of #GreatBarringtonMA 150th birthday celebration of W.E.B. Du Bois. Du Bois Center, GB W. E. B. Du Bois Center tinyurl.com/lhrencd

I'd count the wealth of a nation not by the presence of millionaires but by the absence of poverty. ~ W. E. B. Du Bois

Restoration group buys W.E.B. Du Bois's childhood church; will make it center for local black history and culture: ow.ly/iXVP30cfIF8

"Today more than ever, scholars must produce scholarship for the public." shar.es/1BgdQU by Dr. Keisha N. Blain

Education must not only teach work - it must teach life.

There can be no perfect democracy curtailed by color, race, poverty. But, with all we accomplish all, even peace. - W. E. B. Du Bois

#OTD in 1948 WEB DuBois made history w/1st-ever Af-Am Studies class taught The New School: bit.ly/DuBoisattheNew… #NYChistory #BlackHistory

Du Bois trivia! What does "W. E. B." stand for in Du Bois's name? Reply with #DuBois150

What was Du Bois like? Here's an "FAQ" he sent to Cyril Clemens in 1938. #DuBois150

Du Bois with his mother, Mary Silvina Burghardt Du Bois, 1868. From UMass Amherst SCUA credo.library.umass.edu/view/full/mums… #DuBois150

Photograph of Fisk University faculty & students, 1887. (Du Bois is top row, far right.) From UMass Amherst SCUA credo.library.umass.edu/view/full/mums… #DuBois150

#ThursdayThoughts #DuBois150

Du Bois trivia: At which university did Du Bois serve as a commencement speaker in 1890? #DuBois150