Ida B. Wells 
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
2/11/2021
My Great-Grandmother Ida B. Wells Left a Legacy of Activism in Education. We Need that Now
by Michelle Duster
Activists like Ida B. Wells understood that access to education was critical to all other missions of African American advancement, but systemic inequality has persisted since emancipation.
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1/17/2020
Confronting "Who We Are"
by Verena Erlenbusch-Anderson
The Capitol riots should prompt consideration of how racism is sustained by mainstream institutions and operates through everyday patterns of thought and action, as much as in open eruptions of violence.
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SOURCE: PBS News Hour
8/25/2020
This Ida B. Wells Mosaic is also a Monument to Women’s Suffrage
While women of color have been sometimes overlooked throughout history, you can’t miss suffragist and civil rights icon Ida B. Wells inside Washington, D.C.’s Union Station right now.
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SOURCE: Nashville Tennessean
7/30/2020
Southern Newspapers were Vocal Supporters of the Confederacy. It Lasted for Generations
For most of American history, newspapers in the South supported the people and systems that promoted and maintained prejudice and discrimination.
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8/2/2020
The Mississippi Flag and the Shadow of Lynching
by David T.Z. Mindich
Lynching helped to raise the odious flag in 1894. But in 2020, hundreds of thousands of marchers protesting the lynching of George Floyd brought the flag down.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
5/7/2020
Ida B. Wells Won the Pulitzer. Here’s Why that Matters.
by Sarah L. Silkey
President Trump continues the long history of trying to delegitimize black women journalists.
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SOURCE: Equal Justice Initiative
5/4/2020
Ida B. Wells Honored with Posthumous Pulitzer
Ida B. Wells's pioneering role as a journalist on the front lines of struggle against racist terrorism at the nadir of American race relations was posthumously recognized with a Pulitzer Prize yesterday.
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6/25/19
10 Things To Check Out At the Library of Congress’s New Exhibit on Women’s Suffrage
by Andrew Fletcher
Highlights from the exhibit on women's suffrage at the Library of Congress.
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SOURCE: The North Star
4/28/19
The Legacy Of Ida B. Wells And The Struggle For Racial Justice At ‘Ole Miss’
by Michelle Duster
Ida B. Wells was a pioneer of data journalism who worked relentlessly to shed light on the brutalities of lynching.
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