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Home » Ida B. Wells

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Posted inNews & Politics

Writers on the wall

by Debbie-Marie Brown September 29, 2022September 29, 2022

A new exhibit at the American Writers Museum featres prominent and lesser-known Black authors, poets, and journalists.

Dawn Turner
Posted inArts & Culture

Race, fate, and sisterhood on the south side

by Kaylen Ralph September 10, 2021September 14, 2021

“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 […]

Posted inBest of Chicago

Rapper Ric Wilson pours generations of activism into “Fight Like Ida B and Marsha P”

by Leor Galil March 17, 2021August 18, 2021

Ric Wilson’s single arrived in the midst of this summer’s protests but carried the knowledge of uncounted protests that came before.

Posted inArts & Culture

Bronzeville Children’s Museum ahead of the COVID-19 curve

by Arionne Nettles July 31, 2020August 18, 2021

The country’s first and only African American children’s museum may not have planned for the pandemic, but it was ready.

Posted inCity Life

A trip back in time to the World’s Columbian Exposition

by Jeff Nichols November 20, 2019August 18, 2021

Travel tips for Chicago from 1893 (yes, you should tip your servers).

Posted inColumns & Opinion

Ida B. Wells Drive makes Chicago history

by John Greenfield February 11, 2019August 18, 2021

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.

Posted inBlogs

What we learned at the Chicago Humanities Festival this weekend

by Brita Hunegs, Brianna Wellen, Leor Galil, Maya Dukmasova and Anne Elizabeth Moore November 5, 2018August 18, 2021

Discussed: Ida B. Wells, Tom Hanks’s favorite sandwich, Dessa, Jessica Hopper’s friends, and the girl whose kidnapping inspired Lolita

Posted inBlogs

Street honoring fascist Balbo to remain after aldermen cave

by John Greenfield June 26, 2018August 18, 2021

Congress Parkway—not Balbo Drive—will reportedly be renamed for Ida B. Wells, leaving the honors to a “mass murderer” intact.

Posted inArts & Culture

There’s no devil in Burnham’s Dream: The White City, only music

by Albert Williams June 14, 2018August 18, 2021

Ragtime! Waltzes! World’s Fair architecture!

Posted inBlogs

‘Ida B. Wells Drive’ introduced in City Council: ‘She was a pillar of the community’

by John Greenfield May 23, 2018August 18, 2021

Aldermen are lining up support to rename Balbo Drive, named for a fascist, after the civil rights icon.

Posted inBlogs

Aldermen seek to yank fascist Balbo’s name from Chicago street, rename it for Ida B. Wells

by John Greenfield May 22, 2018August 18, 2021

It would be the first permanent Chicago street renaming in 50 years, officials said.

Posted inBlogs

Donations pour in for Ida B. Wells monument in Chicago, but $180K still needed

by Maya Dukmasova April 14, 2018August 18, 2021

The investigative journalist and civil rights activist could be one of the first women memorialized with a public monument in Chicago

Cheryl Lynn Bruce and Ernest Perry, Jr.
Posted inArts & Culture

The more The Gospel of Lovingkindness preaches, the less it reaches

by Zac Thompson March 12, 2014August 18, 2021

Victory Gardens’ The Gospel of Lovingkindness hits close to home, but preaches too much.

Posted inBlogs

National Geographic’s top ten literary cities

by Jerome Ludwig November 15, 2011August 19, 2021

Chicago is not one of the top ten literary cities, per National Geographic

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