The meditation session was the first of several events taking place Saturday in Chicago’s Bronzeville community honoring ...

From Ida B. Wells to Selma, advocates argue today's attacks on voting rights demand a new Freedom Summer and renewed public ...

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 ...

This insightful, seemingly intuitive first novel digs deep inside the soul of 9-year-old narrator Ida B Applewood. Home-schooled since kindergarten, Ida B is perfectly content spending all of her free ...

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 ...

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 prominent Black female figures are among the United States Mint’s honorees for the 2025 American Women Quarters Program, which ...

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 ...

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 ...

An image of Ida B. Wells is seen at the base of the abstract sculpture in honor of the activist and journalist, created by sculptor Richard Hunt. The Light of Truth Ida B. Wells National Monument, is ...

Educator, journalist, anti-lynching activist and NAACP co-founder Ida B. Wells joins the pantheon of distinguished women honored by Mattel with her own signature Barbie doll. Resplendent in a deep ...

With her bright and youthful voice, Taylor sounds instantly at ease in the role of nine-year-old Ida B Applewood, debut novelist Hannigan's memorable firecracker of a character. By turns sensitive and ...