Newsletter
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 our most recent and available past issues appear here as links to downloadable PDF files.
Du Bois Lines Archives [PDFs]
- 2014 - 2016
- 2012 - 2013
- 2011 - 2012
- 2010 - 2011
- 2009 - 2010
- 2008 - 2009
- Spring 2008
- Fall 2007
- Winter 1979
- Inaugural Issue, Nov. 1973
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 Afro-American 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 worked with the publication of the award-winning art magazine DRUM. Students initiated and (with department faculty support) sustained the UMass Amherst newspaper Nommo News. For the last decade or more, however, there has been nothing, except our website and social networking efforts, 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 fulfill the original mission the newsletter. 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 (in .jpg file format), and drawings are all welcome.
Please submit information to:
The W. E. B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies
329 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
