This Women’s History Month, we’re taking a look at a special series of quarters honoring notable American women. This is the ...
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 ...
Her work has previously appeared in The Hollywood Reporter. Ida B. Wells, a leader in the civil rights movement who helped found the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ...
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 ...