The Ida B. Wells Homes are shown in 1942. For nearly a decade, Duster and a group of volunteers have been working to pay for a monument that could serve as a proper appreciation for Wells-Barnett.

The Ida B. Wells-Barnett Museum opened in the 1990s in Holly Springs, Mississippi. The house that now serves as the Museum was once owned by Spires Boling, the man who enslaved Wells’s family.

First, a little history for those who may associate the name Ida B. Wells with the Chicago public housing development named for her in 1939, or the U.S. postage stamp issued in her honor in 1990.

But Ida Wells II was not able to greet her namesake cousin, being just across the San Lorenzo River from them, so family members loaded the wagon to go and visit her, picking some garden flowers ...

The family thrived. “Ida B. the Queen: The Extraordinary Life and Legacy of Ida B. Wells” by Michele Duster. (Atria/One Signal) Then, in 1878, an epidemic of yellow fever swept through the region.

For a decade, Michelle Duster, Ida B. Wells’s great-granddaughter, has been trying to raise $300,000 for a monument to commemorate the crusading journalist and activist.

Ida B. Wells was born on July 16, 1862, in Holly Springs, Mississippi. She was the first of eight children. Born into slavery, she grew up with constant, brutally hard work, and poor education. She ...

When Ida B. Wells met Garnet, she was living on De Kalb Avenue, where she hosted events like a Black art exhibit that Wells reviewed. Garnet also ran a seamstress shop in Brooklyn for nearly 30 years.

Activist-journalist Ida B. Wells' legacy lives on in Barbie's Inspiring Women Series, with help from great-granddaughter Michelle Duster.

The new Ida B. Wells Doll will be available nationwide at Amazon, Walmart, and Target on Jan. 17, but read on to learn more about all the Black Inspiring Women Barbies included in the collection ...

Black American journalist, suffragist and anti-lynching crusader Ida B. Wells will have her likeness transformed into a Barbie doll to honor her historic achievements. Wells, who was born into ...

The oldest of eight children, Ida B. Wells was born into slavery in Holly Springs, Miss., in 1862. When she was 16, both of her parents and a younger brother died during the yellow fever epidemic.