Family legacy is complicated for the descendants of Ida B. Wells, in a way that only underlines the message of Shaina Taub's ...

Today would have been the 163rd birthday of journalist and civil rights activist Ida B. Wells. I think about the defining journalism of Ida B. Wells most often when I find myself ensnared by the ...

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 lies ...

New Coin Celebrates the Living Legacy of Ida B. Wells Hear from author Michelle Duster about her great-grandmother Ida B. Wells’ lifelong fight for equality. Writer and activist Ida B. Wells was ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Congress Parkway had been rechristened Ida B. Wells Drive several months ago, but seeing the new street signs go up on the busy thoroughfare was still emotional for her descendants.

Journalist and civil rights activist Ida B. Wells is the latest historical icon to be honored by Mattel with a Barbie doll in her likeness. Wells, who was born a slave in 1862 in Mississippi, was a 30 ...

In Chicago, the light of truth shines. That’s the message of a new documentary that ties two great Black lives and the truths they illuminated. Richard Hunt, who passed away in December at 88, was ...

CARBONDALE, Ill (WSIL) – Join us for a powerful evening celebrating the legacy of Ida B. Wells and the artistry of Richard Hunt with a special film screening and discussion at Morris Library’s Guyon ...

Ida B. Wells was a remarkable human: a groundbreaking African American journalist, civil rights leader and anti-lynching activist. Born into slavery in Holly Springs, Mississippi in 1862 (just before ...

BLACK HISTORY MONTH. AND THIS MONTH, IDA B WELLS WILL BE FEATURED ON THE NEWEST U.S QUARTERS. ENTERING CIRCULATION. JOINING US LIVE THIS MORNING WITH MORE ON HER STORY. IS CELEBRITY HISTORIAN RAFI ...