W.E.B. Du Bois was an American sociologist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, author, artist, and editor -- and perhaps the most famous African American intellectual of the modern era. He was one of the co-founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1909. His collection of essays, The Souls of Black Folk, and his magnum opus Black Reconstruction in America are landmark texts of African American history and literature. Honorée Fanonne Jeffers is an award-winning poet, essayist, and fiction writer, and a Professor of English at the University of Oklahoma. Her poetry books include The Gospel of Barbecue, Outlandish Blues, Red Clay Suite, The Glory Gets, and The Age of Phillis, a reimagining of the life of Phillis Wheatley Peters. Her writing has been anthologized in Angles of Ascent: Norton Anthology of Contemporary African American Poetry and The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks on Race. Her first novel, The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois, is fo
