Speaking Truth to Power: Du Bois as Educator and Community Activist

This article uses W. E. B. Du Bois's work as an education and community activist to discuss race, oppression, and speaking-back to power in this time of racialized policies enacted by the Trump administration. This article centers a comparative discussion of the racialization of democracy by presidents Wilson and Trump to show the ways Du Bois was responding to similar political issues and how his work can be used to speak to the current political moment.