Marable recalls asking Dr. Herbert Aptheker — the prolific race scholar and literary executor of Du Bois' papers — how he would sum up Du Bois as a man and a thinker. "He looked at me with surprise. He said, ‘Manning! He was an artist.' "
Feagin agrees: "If Du Bois were alive today, he'd open up another book. It would probably begin, ‘The problem of the 21st century…' "
— By Kendra Hamilton
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