Mona Chalabi Recreates W. E. B. Du Bois's Infographics with Modern Data

W.E.B. Du Bois, one of the most important and influential African American activists and intellectuals of the 20th century who co-founded the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People), showed dozens of illustrations at the 1900 Paris Exposition to challenge beliefs that black Americans were inferior to white Americans. 117 years after he first made them, Mona found new data to recreate the beautiful illustrations (above, 2019). Mona’s work demonstrates the enduring relevance of Du Bois’s data visualisation methods and the racial inequalities he fought against.