Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. In 1884, the journalist Ida B. Wells filed a lawsuit against the Chesapeake, Ohio and Southwestern Railroad after ...

Ida B. Wells and "The Strange Career" of a Political Pioneer of the Press: Communicating a Social Justice Crusade. Training the Pen: Ida B. Wells' Journalistic Efforts to Combat Emerging Jim-Crow Laws ...

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 ...

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The life story of Ida B. Wells (later Wells-Barnett) will help people feel that one person can make a difference. The quarter with her image will remind all about how far we have come as a country and ...

*(Los Angeles, CA) – The Los Angeles NAACP has named Dr. Gloria Zuurveen (pictured) as its Ida B. Wells-Barnett Journalism Award recipient during its 2015 Annual “Roy Wilkins Freedom Fund Awards Gala.

Find a copy of Southern Horrors, by Ida B. Wells-Barnett here. Her contributions touched nearly every facet of American life: from investigative journalism to education, to entrepreneurship to civil ...

Okema Lewis, 67, wearing a shirt with images of Ida B. Wells-Barnett, takes a photo of the The Light of Truth Ida B. Wells National Monument in Chicago’s Bronzeville neighborhood, in honor of the ...

Ida B. Wells-Barnett is remembered as a fierce member of the Black Press who wasn’t afraid to use her platform to call for change. She often faced death threats for her work as an author, journalist ...

Read full article: Black History Month: Who is journalist Ida B. Wells-Barnett & what’s her connection to Jacksonville? Before social media and live streaming, journalism was captured with a pen and ...

Esmeralda Simmons, the founder and executive director of the Center for Law and Social Justice at Medgar Evers College-City University of New York, received the 2016 Ida B. Wells-Barnett Justice Award ...