On International Women’s Day, McCaa honors pioneering women journalists like Dorothy Thompson, Jovita Idár, and Ida B. Wells, ...

Parents and community members say a decision to close Ida B. Wells Academy will be a significant loss for youth and the City ...

Among them is Ida B. Wells, a pioneering journalist and activist who risked her life exposing racial violence in America. Born into slavery in 1862 in Holly Springs, Mississippi, Wells grew up ...

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 ...

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 ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Ida B. Wells was a well-known journalist and activist in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Michelle Duster, an author and public historian, is Wells' great granddaughter. She's ...

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 ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Congress Parkway had been rechristened Ida B. Wells Drive several months ago, but seeing the new street signs go up on the busy thoroughfare was still emotional for her descendants.

In July, a life-sized statue of Ida B. Wells was unveiled near the corner of Fourth and Beale, at the new Ida B. Wells Plaza. The bronze likeness joined such previous tributes to Wells as a 1990 U.S.

In the late 19th and early 20th century, African American journalist Ida B. Wells covered stories that weren't being told elsewhere. She was also a women's rights leader. A statue of the journalist ...