Michelle Duster, author, educator, and the great-granddaughter of pioneering journalist and activist Ida B. Wells,…

New York Times Magazine staff writer Nikole Hannah-Jones considers Ida B. Wells her spiritual grandmother.

Thanks to a recent push on social media, the organizers of a monument to trailblazing journalist and civil rights…

This weekend, two trailblazing black newspapers were honored in New Orleans’ French Quarter with a new bronze plaque…

Ida Bell Wells-Barnett—abolitionist, suffragist, journalist and organizer—is a legend. She is the blueprint for…

On Women’s Day, the New York Times published an interactive collection called “Overlooked,” a series of obituaries…

Editor’s note: For Black History Month, The Root is speaking to the relatives of our most cherished African-American…