She Reported The News And Fought To Change It: Honoring Ida B. Wells At 163

She Reported The News And Fought To Change It: Honoring Ida B. Wells At 163

Source: Interim Archives / Getty 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 clickbait that makes up so much of the coverage about Black people and Black life in America. There’s nothing wrong with the escapism of that writing. We need the respite, Lord knows. But we also need–and deserve–so much …

Ida B. Wells: A Trailblazer in Journalism - Dallas Weekly

“The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them.”Ida B. wells An icon. A muckraker. A “Negro Adventuress.” Those are just a few of the labels conferred on this remarkable woman who exposed the truth about lynchings in the Jim Crow South.  The future cofounder of the NAACP and the National Association of Colored Women, Ida Bell Wells, was born into slavery on July 16, 1862. She attended Rust College (formerly Shaw University), Le…