Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. In 1884, the journalist Ida B. Wells filed a lawsuit against the Chesapeake, Ohio and Southwestern Railroad after ...

Ida B. Wells and "The Strange Career" of a Political Pioneer of the Press: Communicating a Social Justice Crusade. Training the Pen: Ida B. Wells' Journalistic Efforts to Combat Emerging Jim-Crow Laws ...

In August 1894 it was rumored that Ida B. Wells, the celebrated black journalist, anti-lynching crusader and suffragist was coming to Santa Cruz! Her news articles and booklets were hard-hitting. Her ...

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 ...

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 ...

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It was not all that unusual when, in 1892, a mob dragged Thomas Moss out of a Memphis jail in his pajamas and shot him to death over a feud that began with a game of marbles. But his lynching changed ...

This is the second of four columns observing Black History Month. She used her pen to speak to the world. Frederick Douglass spoke these words to describe her, “Brave woman! You have done your people ...

In a new video, students who were the lucky recipients of the Ida B. Wells-Barnett Textbook Fund have shown their thanks to all those who contributed. Howard University and Morgan State University ...

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 ...

Read full article: Black History Month: Who is journalist Ida B. Wells-Barnett & what’s her connection to Jacksonville? Before social media and live streaming, journalism was captured with a pen and ...