W.E.B. Du Bois and Liberation Journalism

W. E. B. Du Bois circa 1907. (Wikipedia, Library of Congress)

“A literary and news journal must be free and uncontrolled,” stated 83-year-old Black scholar and intellectual W. E. B. Du Bois in March, 1951. “In no other way can it be virile, creative, and individual.” Du Bois’s comments recalled the nearly quarter century, between 1910 and 1934, that he e…