There were whorls of bright red. Modernist swaths of green and black. A man with a piercing gaze. A young woman with an innocent smile. These visuals are what greeted visitors from across the globe who in 1900 stopped by an exhibit in the corner of a large, nondescript white building on the banks of the Seine. There they perused hundreds of photographs, more than 60 charts and maps, and hundreds of books and periodicals all focused on one thing: presenting on the world stage a thorough and accurate accounting of the achievements of one group of human beings. This was the “Exhibit of American Negroes.” Now, more than 125 years after Du Bois presented his works in Paris, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has re-created a handful of the visualizations with contemporary data and the photographs with modern looks at the lives of Black Georgians. Today, to mark the AJC project, the 100th anniversary of Black History Month, and to bring Du Bois’ original ambition into conversation with the...