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2018 Year of Du Bois

This is a fundraiser for ‘The Year of W.E.B. Du Bois’, a year long series of symposiums, celebrations and readings in Philadelphia celebrating the 150th anniversary of Du Bois's life.

Part of this year will be a very special project titled ‘Philadelphia Reads Du Bois’. At around 15 sites around the city, including the Central Branch of the Free Library of Philadelphia, Mother Bethel AME Church, the Christian Association, Temple University, 1199C Union Hall and the Church of the Advocate, there will be reading groups that will bring people together to read the writings of Du Bois. There will be events at the Barnes Foundation and the African American Museum. The books we will read will include The Souls of Black Folk, Dark Princess, Black Reconstruction, The Philadelphia Negro and the World and Africa.

In this time, when the prevailing culture is anti-reading and anti-literacy, we want to re-establish and promote the necessity for people to read, learn and think together. We believe that reading is essential to the development of people’s consciousness, and that the writings of Du Bois are extremely relevant today to understand the world and its history. 

You can find out more about the projects on the website https://www.yearofdubois.org/. 

The unity of Pan Africa and Pan Asia will be the the subject of the opening celebration and symposium on Dr. Du Bois’ birthday, February 23rd-24th. A symposium on Friday on the importance of his ideas today will be followed by a celebration on Saturday at the Church of the Advocate. The celebration will include dance, music, poetry and art from Africa and Asia to celebrate our unity for a better future.

This initiative has been undertaken by the Saturday Free School, an independent grassroots organization, in collaboration with religious, labor, academic, and community forces. We ask you to consider contributing to this project with a donation. This will be used to buy books, t-shirts, as well as to pay the artists for the events so we can bring events for free to the people of Philadelphia.

Organizer

Meghna Chandra
Organizer
Philadelphia, PA

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