<p>Why are we still caught up in century-old protest politics?</p>
<p>One hundred years ago this month, W.E.B. DuBois--one of 20th-century America's leading intellectuals--published what may be the most prophetic book written on the subject of race: "The Souls of Black Folk." Its most famous prophecy was simply that the 20th century would be the century of the "color-line." If this prediction was ultimately qualified by the great ideological struggles against communism and fascism, it was also borne out by the struggles against segregation, apartheid, caste and world-wide colonialism. So, for its prescience alone, this book deserves the many centennial celebrations it is now receiving around the nation.</p>