About the Folio
“The problem of the twentieth century” wrote W.E.B. Du Bois in 1903, “is the problem of the color line.” Tragically, this remains a defining problem for the twenty-first century as well. In order to understand how racial injustice and discrimination have so doggedly persisted, we must confront the past. Through masterful storytelling in novels, memoir, and works of history, this Folio brings us closer to what lies at the heart of the Black experience — both historically and in this moment.