Wells Principal Ayesha Coning said she invited Michelle Duster to speak at the school because she wanted to honor the ...

Dr. Amy Gais is a Lecturer in the Department of Political Science and Comparative Literature and Thought at Washington ...

During this year’s Black History Month, WBBM is partnering with the DuSable Black History Museum to put a spotlight on Chicago’s rich Black history.We all know Ida B. Wells Drive downtown, named for ...

Explore Ida B. Wells’ legacy as a pioneering journalist, anti-lynching activist, and co-founder of the NAACP in this ...

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 ...

The press has long documented violence and helped secure justice. Black journalists have been essential in this work.

As a journalist, Ida often wrote about issues ... and race riots with the hope that the violence would stop. Ida B. Wells-Barnett with her children, Charles (left), Herman (right), Ida Jr ...

Thank you for publishing the op-ed about Ida B Wells (“Chicago activist Ida B. Wells changes the face of American currency,” Feb. 15). I cried as read it. We all need to learn about her.

Exposing Greed as the True Root of Racism,' Rev. Malcolm Foley investigates investigates the historic relationship between ...

Daniel (L) and Michelle (C) Duster attend the dedication of a monument to their great-grandmother, journalist, educator, and civil rights leader, Ida B. Wells on June 30, 2021 in Chicago ...