EditorialFILE PHOTO: U.S. Congressman John Lewis and musician Harry Belafonte react before receiving W.E.B. Du Bois Medals at the Hutchins Center Honors at Harvard University in Cambridge
EditorialCatherine Elliot, a French teacher at W.E.B. Du Bois Regional Middle School in Great Barrington, Mass., leads her Crew class, in which students lean on their “crews” for support, Sept. 14, 2022. (Lauren Lancaster/The New York Times)
EditorialCatherine Elliot, a French teacher at W.E.B. Du Bois Regional Middle School in Great Barrington, Mass., leads her Crew class, in which students lean on their “crews” for support, Sept. 14, 2022. (Lauren Lancaster/The New York Times)
EditorialBradhurst Avenue in Harlem, Feb. 21, 2021, which was renamed W.E.B. DuBois Avenue in 2009, after the writer and scholar who helped found the NAACP. (Jose A. Alvarado Jr./The New York Times)
EditorialThe chef Omar Tate cooks dinner for his pop-up, Honeysuckle, at Plowshare Farms in Pipersville, Pa., Aug. 7, 2019. (Ryan Collerd/The New York Times)