Theodore R. Johnson is a writer and naval officer who describes himself as an “upper-middle-class black male.” He recently claimed in The Atlantic that an unintended consequence of a burgeoning group ...
The Talented Tenth were first recognized in an essay by W.E.B. DuBois in a 1903 book called “The Negro Problem.” Mr. DuBois, an esteemed black educator at the time, described the “exceptional” people ...
BRONX, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES, January 26, 2023 /EINPresswire.com/ -- The author quotes W.E.B. DuBois as asserting in his “Talented Tenth” that “The Negro race ...
In his landmark 1903 essay, “The Talented Tenth,” African-American sociologist and civil rights activist W.E.B. DuBois declared that the best opportunities for racial uplift rested in the cultivation ...