W.E.B. Du Bois Lines was first published in 1973 as the official newsletter of the W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies. Scanned copies of a couple issues appear below as downloadable PDF files. The newsletter defined its mission as carrying information concerning: 1) the Du Bois Department; 2) programs of the New Africa House Cultural Center; 3) organizational and professional activities of faculty and staff; and, 4) information of interest to students and scholars of Africana Studies programs. Faculty member/artist Nelson Stevens drew the Du Bois logo.

Before the 1980s, however, the publication of Du Bois Lines was indefinitely suspended. Other newspapers and periodicals helped fill the void the cessation of Du Bois Lines created. Department faculty members help edit and publish the art magazine DRUM . Students initiated and with the help of department faculty members sustained the UMass Amherst newspaper NOMMO . For the last decade or more, however, there has been nothing, except to some very limited extent our website, to serve as the department's mouthpiece. With this new series of our newsletter we want to restore that missing voice. As individuals and as a collective, the Du Bois Department, its faculty, staff and students, are making a statement. Through Du Bois Lines we want to do more than to toot our horn. We want to tell our story as only we can. We invite you to read our lines, between the lines, and to add some lines of your own. Short essays of up to 500 words, Letters to the Editor, poems, alumni/ae updates, book/media reviews, photographs (jpeg), and drawings, they are all welcome.

Please submit information to:
The W. E. B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies
325 New Africa House
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Amherst, MA 01003-9289 USA
Phone: 413.545.2751 Fax: 413.545.0628
Email: tlovelan@afroam.umass.edu

Du Bois Lines Newsletter:

2008 - 2009 (pdf)

Fall 2007 (pdf)

Du Bois Lines Archives:

Inaugural Issue, November 1973 (pdf)

Winter 1979 (pdf)