March 20, 2025
In Quantity One in every of “W.E.B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race” audiobook, the actor will narrate the primary 5 a long time of the activist’s life.
Tony Award-winning actor Courtney B. Vance will reintroduce the legacy of W.E.B. Du Bois as narrator of a two-volume biography in regards to the civil rights activist.
The chance to relate the Pulitzer Prize-winning biography, W.E.B. Du Bois, 1868-1919: Biography of a Race, is a real ardour undertaking for Vance because the work makes its debut as an audiobook for the primary time. The Lovecraft Nation actor stated in a press launch obtained by BLACK ENTERPRISE that his love for historical past drew him to Du Bois’ biography, authored by David Levering Lewis.
In accordance with the March 19 announcement, Quantity One will cowl the primary 5 a long time of Du Bois’ legacy, adopted by Quantity Two, a continuation of his life via 1963. “Take heed to Courtney B. Vance, and also you shall hear the spoken knowledge of an American colossus, a prophetic man of shade in whose ninety-five years all mental, political, financial, and racial selections have been profoundly explored,” stated Lewis.
The biography explores an intense fifty-year interval of the African American scholar’s life and profession, based on the e-book’s description on Simon & Schuster. Born William Edward Burghardt Du Bois, the famend civil rights pioneer, editor, and author modified the way in which People suppose. The NAACP says the main thinker was “one of many foremost Black intellectuals of his period.” Du Bois, an NAACP founding member who turned the group’s director of publicity and analysis, printed a number of essays and works talking on race and the plight of Black People. Du Bois made historical past as the primary African American to earn a Ph.D. from Harvard College.
Simon & Schuster Audio President Chris Lynch stated, “To have a narrator as gifted and passionate as Courtney B. Vance carry W.E.B. Du Bois’ legacy to life is a real publishing occasion.” Vance has portrayed vital figures over the course of his performing profession, from Johnny Cochran in FX’s The Folks vs. OJ Simpson: American Crime Story to Rev. C.L. Franklin in Nationwide Geographic’s Genius: Aretha collection.
Simon & Schuster Audio’s announcement moreover revealed the actor’s plans to provide a documentary movie primarily based on the W.E.B. Du Bois biography via the Bassett Vance Productions firm, based in partnership together with his spouse, Golden Globe Award-winning actress Angela Bassett.
Quantity One in every of W.E.B. Du Bois, 1868-1919: Biography of a Race shall be launched as an audiobook on June 17.
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