A must read for every American! The Souls of Black Folk is a serious, informative, and unforgettably poignant journey through the question of race in America that stirs our hearts and disquiets our minds. The writing of W.E.B. Du Bois is intellectual, eloquent, and absolutely beautiful!
Whether one agrees with all or some of the arguments he makes, it is irrefragable that he raises crucial points that challenge our way of thinking not only of the America of the antebellum era and the America in the turn of the 20th century that his work was published (1903), but also of the America we know in 2019 -- our America -- and the issues we continue as a country facing, thinking, and debating.

These words below ring true today as much as they rang true to Du Bois when he was writing them in 1903.

"It is not enough for the Negroes to declare that color-prejudice is the sole cause of their social condition, nor for the white South to reply that their social condition is the main cause of prejudice. They both act as reciprocal cause and effect, and a change in neither alone will bring the desired effect. Both must change, or neither can improve to any great extent. [...] Only by a union of intelligence and sympathy across the color-line in this critical period of the Republic shall justice and right triumph, — " (Pg. 142).