Ida B. Wells-Barnett (1862-1931) is the investigative journalist, educator and advocate known for her outspoken activism. Wells-Barnett used her pen and voice to document and address the severe ...
When Michelle Duster — author, historian, public speaker and great-granddaughter of famed Black journalist and activist Ida B. Wells — learned that a school named after Woodrow Wilson in ...
On October 5, 1892, journalist and activist Ida B. Wells addressed a packed house at New York’s Lyric Hall. The subject was lynching. Wells had recently published an editorial that exposed the ...