The Chicago Dance Health Fund has announced the full program for Dance for Life 2025, the city’s annual benefit performance ...

Community and faith leaders are holding a prayer vigil Thursday outside of an ICE office downtown. The vigil started around 11 a.m. on Clark Street near Ida B. Wells Drive. Those attending want ICE ...

Police try to mitigate as a man protests against the anti-ICE protesters at the corner of Michigan Avenue and Ida B. Wells Drive on June 12, 2025, in Chicago. (Audrey Richardson/Chicago Tribune) ...

When the Ida B. Wells housing project opened on Chicago’s South Side in 1941, its up-to-date kitchens and grassy lawns drew more than 1,500 black families looking for somewhere decent to settle.

Ida B. Wells-Barnett (1862-1931) is the investigative journalist, educator and advocate known for her outspoken activism. Wells-Barnett used her pen and voice to document and address the severe ...

Daniel (L) and Michelle (C) Duster attend the dedication of a monument to their great-grandmother, journalist, educator, and civil rights leader, Ida B. Wells on June 30, 2021 in Chicago, Illinois.

Investigative journalist Ida B. Wells spent much of her career raising public awareness about the horrors of lynching Black men. Photo from public domain Long before there was Rosa Parks, there was ...

Civil rights activist Ida B. Wells will be featured on newly minted U.S. quarters. Historian Raffi Andonian joins Jenye Donaldson to share Wells' story.

Paula J. Giddings, Ida: A Sword Among Lions: Ida B. Wells and the Campaign Against Lynching (Amistad Press, 2009). Mia Bay, To Tell the Truth Freely: The Life of Ida B. Wells (Hill and Wang, 2009).

This past week, Michelle Duster, the great-granddaughter of Ida B. Wells attended a performance of Suffs at The Music Box Theatre. See photos ...

A 16-year-old boy has been arrested in the killing of an eighth grader this month at the Brookland Metro station, D.C. police confirmed. The victim, 14-year-old Avion Evans, attended Ida B. Wells ...