Afro-American Studies

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An Egyptian intellectual. Hundreds of naked students. UMass in 1974.

A century and a half after the birth of W.E.B. Du Bois, a pillar of Afro-American studies at UMass Amherst ponders what the renowned scholar might have to tell us now