Ida B. Wells
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THE RELIGION CORNER: Posthumous Pulitzer Prize to Ida B. Wells
Honored on May 6 — my birthday — 89 years after her death, journalist and activist Ida B. Wells received…
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MALVEAUX: Ida B. Wells’ Pulitzer Both Too Late and Right on Time
Ida B.'s legacy requires journalists to poke and provoke, to ask uncomfortable questions, to use their pens to seek social…
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Ida B. Wells’ Brave Speech on Lynching During Suffrage Movement
On Feb. 13, 1893, Wells delivered a scathing rebuke of lynching in front of a mostly white and angry audience…
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McKINNEY: Happy Birthday, Ida B. Wells!
The people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the press.
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Bring Back Our Girls
To see that picture of Relisha Rudd, really touched my heart. I can't believe that its been so many years…
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MUHAMMAD: All Women Are Not Sex ‘Victims’
It's gone from the sublime to the wildly ridiculous, this climate of overboard sexual accountability. Now, former Vice President Joe…
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MALVEAUX: The Audacity of Ida B. Wells
We need to be reminded of Ida B. Wells and her audacity — especially now, when so many seem to…
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EDITORIAL: Journalists Who Give Their Lives for Truth
Attacks on truth-seekers and fact-checkers, otherwise known as journalists, strike home no matter where an incident occurs.
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National Memorial for Peace and Justice Opens in Alabama
The National Museum for Peace and Justice, opened Thursday in Montgomery, Ala., featuring a memorial dedicated to thousands of lynching…
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THE RELIGION CORNER: A Women’s History Month Salute to Ida B. Wells
The day Ida B. Wells heard that terrible news about her friend Thomas Moss was a day that changed her…
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