W.E.B. Du Bois with Mao in China, 1959
That figures. DuBois was a communist piece of crap, so it wouldn't surprise me that this guy holds "the seat". Dubois was a racist as well, he and his ilk treated Booker T. Washington as an "Uncle Tom". Those people weren't fit to lick Washington's shoes.
W.E.B. Du Bois with Mao in China, 1959
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Director
The W. E. B. Du Bois Institute is the nation’s oldest research center dedicated to the study of the history, culture, and social institutions of Africans and African Americans. Named after the first African American to receive a Ph.D. from Harvard University, William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (1895), the Institute was established in May 1975 to create fellowships that would “facilitate the writing of doctoral dissertations in areas related to Afro- American Studies.” Today, the Institute awards up to twenty fellowships annually to scholars at various stages of their careers in the fields of African and African American Studies, broadly defined to cover the expanse of the African Diaspora. The Du Bois Institute’s research projects and visiting fellows form the vital nucleus around which revolve a stimulating array of lecture series, art exhibitions, readings, conferences, and archival and publication projects.
http://dubois.fas.harvard.edu/about-us