# Event Details - **Event Name**: Reading the Classics: The Souls of Black Folks by W.E.B. Du Bois - **Event Start and End Date**: Sat, 14 Feb, 2026 at 05:00 pm – Sat, 14 Feb, 2026 at 07:00 pm - **Event Description**: Join us at Kindred Thoughts Bookstore for our flagship book club, Reading the Classics, now in its fourth year!About this Event https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events7/banners/2a4686b0-bef7-11f0-88a8-8ff6fae1b638-rimg-w740-h740-dc020202-gmir.jpg Join us at Kindred Thoughts Bookstore for our flagship book club, Reading the Classics, now in its fourth year!Get ready to dive deep into the powerful words of W.E.B. Du Bois in an interactive session exploring The Souls of Black Folks! Join us on Saturday, February 21 at 5pm as we discuss this classic as led by Cultural Historian, Michelle Black Smith. Don't miss this chance to connect over literature and share your thoughts on this iconic piece. See you there!About the book:“Few books make history and fewer still become foundational texts for the movements and struggles of an entire people. The Souls of Black Folk occupies this rare position.”--Manning MarableW.E.B. DuBois was the foremost black intellectual of his time. The Souls of Black Folk (1903), his most influential work, is a collection of fourteen beautifully written essays, by turns lyrical, historical, and autobiographical. Here, Du Bois records the cruelties of racism, celebrates the strength and pride of black America, and explores the paradoxical “double-consciousness” of African-American life.”The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line,” he writes, prophesying the struggle for freedom that became his life’s work.Library of America Paperback Classics feature authoritative texts drawn from the acclaimed Library of America series and introduced by today’s most distinguished scholars and writers. Each book features a detailed chronology of the author’s life and career, and essay on the choice of the text, and notes.The contents of this Paperback Classic are drawn from W.E.B. Du Bois: Writings, volume number 34 in the Library of America series; that volume also includes The Suppression of the African Slave-Trade, Dusk of Dawn, articles from The Crisis, and selected essays. - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/bridgeport/reading-the-classics-the-souls-of-black-folks-by-web-du-bois/100001835424316539 - **Event Categories**: art, literary-art - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 - **Event Highlights**: - Duration: 2 hours - Location: Kindred Thoughts Bookstore - Languages: English ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 0, currency: USD ## Event venue details - **city**: Bridgeport - **state**: CT - **country**: United States - **location**: Kindred Thoughts Bookstore - **lat**: 41.178217 - **long**: -73.18934899999999 - **full address**: Kindred Thoughts Bookstore, 1001 Main Street, Bridgeport, United States ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: Reading the Classics: The Souls of Black Folks by W.E.B. 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