Ida B. Wells

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  2/17/2022
  

  The Black Press is a Model for How to Cover Racism in the News

  by Olivia Paschal

  The mainstream press worked to obscure the nature and extent of racist violence in the early 20th century; Black journalists and Black-owned newspapers did the essential work of preserving the truth and explaining the context of white supremacist terrorism. 

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  12/18/2021
  

  Ida B. Wells Became the Last Hope for 12 Men Convicted of False Charges During Elaine, Ark. Massacre

  "Did Wells, an unflinching woman who had traveled the country to investigate the ruthless barbarity of white mobs in other lynchings and massacres, have that much power to save these Black men on death row in Arkansas?"

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• SOURCE: Jacobin
  10/8/2021
  

  The American Muckrakers Who Spoke Truth to Power

  Gilded Age muckrackers, often rooted in the African Amerian press, disrupted the prevailing journalism of the day, which was content to uphold the status quo. 

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• SOURCE: MSNBC
  8/7/2021
  

  Black Amazon Workers Keep Finding Nooses on the Job. The Company Owes them Action

  by Keisha N. Blain

  The incidents are part of an old and familiar story of resentment against Black advancement. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  7/10/2021
  

  How White Newspapers Helped Keep Down Black America

  White-owned newspapers – northern, southern, midwestern or western – frequently inflamed racial tensions and contributed to racist political violence and disenfranchisement. 

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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.