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A celebration of African American graphic designers who have left an indelible mark on their field.

SUMMARY Carter G. Woodson was a historian and founder of the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, the Journal of Negro History, and “Negro History Week.” Now known as the “Father of Black History” because of his efforts to promote African American history, Woodson wrote pioneering social histories chronicling the lives of black people at a time when mainstream white scholars denied that African Americans were worthy of historical study. Much of his work was based on pub...

W.E.B. Du Bois showed us the power of data viz more than a century ago By Murray Whyte Globe Staff,Updated February 25, 2021, 2:46 p.m. Email to a Friend W. E. B. Du Bois created a set of gorgeous infographics for the 1900 Paris Exposition.Maura Intemann/W. E. B. Du Bois/Library of Congress GREAT BARRINGTON — February in the Berkshires typically brings to mind an array of nature-centric, winter-wonderland pleasures like snowshoeing or skiing, and in the continuing drag of this long, long p...