Ida B. Wells, journalist and activist famous for launching an anti-lynching campaign, will have her legacy honored with a new signature Barbie doll. Born into slavery, Wells would go on to become an ...
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 ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The latest doll to join Barbie's Inspiring Women series is Ida B. Wells, a journalist and early leader in the civil rights ...
Ida B. Wells was an African-American journalist that led an anti-lynching crusade. Today, she is still celebrated for her part in America’s history! Ida B. Wells (full name Ida B. Wells-Barnett) 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.
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 ...
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A week of celebrating the life and legacy of journalist and civil rights pioneer Ida B. Wells will culminate Friday in downtown Memphis. The Ida B. Wells statue and plaza will ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Wells' unflinching journalism and speeches were instrumental in exposing the brutal realities of this violence to the world and ...
In July, a life-sized statue of Ida B. Wells was unveiled near the corner of Fourth and Beale, at the new Ida B. Wells Plaza. The bronze likeness joined such previous tributes to Wells as a 1990 U.S.