The Light of Truth Ida B. Wells National Monument in Bronzeville, curling skyward above the modest trees of its surrounding park, stands 30 feet tall. Created by famed sculptor Richard Hunt ...

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 ...

the “Giant Letter” series tells the story of Bobby using gigantic handwritten notes and props. This is its first year in Rogers Park. Ida B. Wells Barbie Flying Off Store Shelves In Chicago, ...

My emotional reaction to the great American journalist Ida B. Wells’ historic work Lynch Law in America is varied and deep. I am shocked and horrified to learn that lynchings took place before a ...

Ida B. Wells, a crusading African American journalist who exposed the crime and shame of lynching and fought for women’s suffrage, spent half her life in Chicago. She died in 1931 after ...

Ida B. Wells-Barnett (1862-1931) is the investigative journalist, educator and advocate known for her outspoken activism. Wells-Barnett used her pen and voice to document and address the severe ...

Ida B. Wells once said, “The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them,” and the journalist and activist spent her entire life attempting to do just that. This year ...

When Michelle Duster — author, historian, public speaker and great-granddaughter of famed Black journalist and activist Ida B. Wells — learned that a school named after Woodrow Wilson in ...