
A century ago, W.E.B. Du Bois published a short-lived magazine for Black families. Now it has been reborn as a book
If you’d stepped inside a typical Black household not too long ago, you would have seen this: plastic-covered living room furniture, portraits of Jesus and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. on the walls, and a collection of vinyl records with gospel, Motown hits and maybe a Richard Pryor comedy…