Ida B. Wells

Journalist, civil rights activist and suffragist, she dedicated her life to documenting injustices against Black Americans and calling for change.

The gap in education equality is holding America back.

Ida B. Wells reported on lynching in the South, risking her own safety.

The answer runs through the history of anti-lynching laws.

In the late 19th century, Wells connected lynchings to the economic interests and status anxieties of white southerners.

A discussion on the difficulty of keeping faith in a foundationally anti-Black republic.

We will never truly achieve racial justice until we, collectively, learn how to treat and heal the wound of white supremacy.

Pauline Hopkins, Booker T. Washington, and the Fight for The Colored American Magazine.

Over a 100 years ago, white mobs organized by white elites and planters in Arkansas swarmed into rural Black sharecropping communities in the Arkansas Delta.

How statistics were used in the urban North to condemn Blackness as inherently criminal.

Racism and sexism were bound together in the fight to vote – and Black women made it clear they would never cede the question of their voting rights to others.

On the self-preservation, testimonies, and solace found in the diaries of black women writers.

Southern newspapers played a major role in racial violence. Do they owe their communities an apology?

America is covered in Confederate statues. We can do better — and here’s how.

Remembering the "Silent Protest Parade."

The United States wasn't filled with isolationists, and it wasn't exactly neutral before 1917.

On these pages you will meet Monroe Nathan Work, who lived from 1866- 1945. This website is a rebirth of one piece of his work.

Deferring to power and authority leads inevitably to autocracy.

Historian Manisha Sinha argues that the Second Republic lasted decades longer than most histories state and achieved wider gains.

How we rediscovered the tragedy in Mississippi that ushered us into the Great Migration.