CHICAGO (WLS) -- Congress Parkway had been rechristened Ida B. Wells Drive several months ago, but seeing the new street signs go up on the busy thoroughfare was still emotional for her descendants.

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 ...

On October 5, 1892, journalist and activist Ida B. Wells addressed a packed house at New York’s Lyric Hall. The subject was lynching. Wells had recently published an editorial that exposed the lies ...

In August 1894 it was rumored that Ida B. Wells, the celebrated black journalist, anti-lynching crusader and suffragist was coming to Santa Cruz! Her news articles and booklets were hard-hitting. Her ...

The latest doll to join Barbie's Inspiring Women series is Ida B. Wells, a journalist and early leader in the civil rights movement who not only fought for Black equality, but for that of women.

Caitlin O'Kane is a New York City journalist who works on the CBS News social media team as a senior manager of content and production. She writes about a variety of topics and produces "The Uplift," ...

New Coin Celebrates the Living Legacy of Ida B. Wells Hear from author Michelle Duster about her great-grandmother Ida B. Wells’ lifelong fight for equality. Writer and activist Ida B. Wells was ...

In March 1898, the journalist Ida B. Wells-Barnett was the sole woman among eight congressmen who made a visit to the White House. They came to implore President William McKinley to punish the killers ...

Ida B. Wells, journalist and activist famous for launching an anti-lynching campaign, will have her legacy honored with a new signature Barbie doll. Born into slavery, Wells would go on to become an ...

BLACK HISTORY MONTH. AND THIS MONTH, IDA B WELLS WILL BE FEATURED ON THE NEWEST U.S QUARTERS. ENTERING CIRCULATION. JOINING US LIVE THIS MORNING WITH MORE ON HER STORY. IS CELEBRITY HISTORIAN RAFI ...