Event

Moderated by Tukufu Zuberi, Lasry Professor of Race Relations, Penn

The Inaugural W.E.B. Du Bois Lecture in Public Social Science is a continuation of efforts to recognize one of the foremost academic and intellectual voices in the 20th century.

The University of Pennsylvania’s Department of Sociology, in collaboration with Annenberg School for Communication and The Center for Africana Studies, will host a lecture in Dr. Du Bois’ honor on his birthday. Drs. Brent Staples and Tukufu Zuberi will engage in a conversation which focuses on Dr. Du Bois’ ideas about race and public discourse that continue to impact our world and work today.

This event will also be live streamed for attendees who cannot attend in-person. The livestream can be viewed by visiting this webpage: https://www.asc.upenn.edu/livestream

About The Speaker:

Brent Staples has been a member of the Times editorial board since 1990. In 2019, Mr. Staples won the Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing, The New York Times’ first winner for editorial writing in 23 years.

In his Pulitzer Prize-winning portfolio, he highlighted racism in the women’s suffrage movement, showed how newspapers were complicit in Southern lynchings and denounced myths about “crack babies.”

Editorials and essays from throughout his career are included in dozens of college readers throughout the United States and abroad. Before joining the Editorial page, he served as an editor of The New York Times Book Review and an assistant editor for Metropolitan news. Mr. Staples holds a Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Chicago and is the author of “Parallel Time,” a memoir, which was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and a winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award.