Class in Session - October 28, 2026

Continuing the reading of The Souls of Black Folk, Eddie moves from Du Bois’s grief in “Of the Passing of the First-Born” to “Of Alexander Crummell,” where the religious ideal of turning grief into striving runs up against three temptations: hate, despair, and doubt, the last and most dangerous. He then reads “Of the Coming of John,” the only fiction in