“My earliest memory of myself is of my sister. My earliest understanding of my world comes from three women—my mother, grandmother, and aunt.” In her new memoir Three Girls From Bronzeville: A Uniquely American Story of Race, Fate, and Sisterhood, Dawn Turner turns her journalistic eye toward her own story, one she weaves as inextricable […]
Tag: Ida B. Wells
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Rapper Ric Wilson pours generations of activism into “Fight Like Ida B and Marsha P”
Ric Wilson’s single arrived in the midst of this summer’s protests but carried the knowledge of uncounted protests that came before.
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Bronzeville Children’s Museum ahead of the COVID-19 curve
The country’s first and only African American children’s museum may not have planned for the pandemic, but it was ready.
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A trip back in time to the World’s Columbian Exposition
Travel tips for Chicago from 1893 (yes, you should tip your servers).
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Ida B. Wells Drive makes Chicago history
It’s the city’s first-ever downtown roadway to honor an African-American woman; the cost is that Balbo’s street name remains intact.
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What we learned at the Chicago Humanities Festival this weekend
Discussed: Ida B. Wells, Tom Hanks’s favorite sandwich, Dessa, Jessica Hopper’s friends, and the girl whose kidnapping inspired Lolita
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Street honoring fascist Balbo to remain after aldermen cave
Congress Parkway—not Balbo Drive—will reportedly be renamed for Ida B. Wells, leaving the honors to a “mass murderer” intact.
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There’s no devil in Burnham’s Dream: The White City, only music
Ragtime! Waltzes! World’s Fair architecture!
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‘Ida B. Wells Drive’ introduced in City Council: ‘She was a pillar of the community’
Aldermen are lining up support to rename Balbo Drive, named for a fascist, after the civil rights icon.
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Aldermen seek to yank fascist Balbo’s name from Chicago street, rename it for Ida B. Wells
It would be the first permanent Chicago street renaming in 50 years, officials said.
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Donations pour in for Ida B. Wells monument in Chicago, but $180K still needed
The investigative journalist and civil rights activist could be one of the first women memorialized with a public monument in Chicago
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The more The Gospel of Lovingkindness preaches, the less it reaches
Victory Gardens’ The Gospel of Lovingkindness hits close to home, but preaches too much.
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National Geographic’s top ten literary cities
Chicago is not one of the top ten literary cities, per National Geographic