There are 21 article(s) tagged Ida B. Wells:

• February 2023

  • Black literature celebrated at new festival

    A new festival focused on celebrating Black authors and literature will kick off at Crosstown Concourse this weekend. 

    By Jasmine McCraven February 02, 2023

• July 2022

  • Film aims to show how Memphis helped shape Ida B. Wells

    “I want people to see (Ida B. Wells) as a real person. I also want to see Memphis as a character in the development of Ida B. Wells because she’s not coming from thin air.”

    By Mikayla Higgins July 23, 2022

  • Ida B. Wells observance day announced at memorial groundbreaking

    The second phase of the Ida B. Wells plaza will bring educational and narrative elements into the memorial, telling the story of Wells’ life, particularly her time in Memphis. 

    By Alicia Davidson July 17, 2022

• March 2022

  • Fourth Street becomes Ida B. Wells Street

    Signs for the permanent street renaming were unveiled Monday for a section of Fourth Street between Union Avenue and E.H. Crump Boulevard.

    By Bill Dries March 29, 2022

• January 2022

  • Ida B. Wells to be honored with Downtown street

    The name change approved Tuesday changes the street’s name on city maps and as a mailing address.

    By Bill Dries January 19, 2022

  • City council goes further down the road in reckless driving review

    On Tuesday, Jan. 18, District Attorney General Amy Weirich will talk about how her office prosecutes reckless driving and drag racing cases. 

    By Bill Dries January 18, 2022

  • First a Pulitzer, now a Barbie

    Civil rights icon Ida B. Wells is commemorated as part of Mattel’s “Inspiring Women” series. 

    By Jasmine McCraven January 12, 2022

• December 2021

  • Orpheum Theatre transfer approved

    The Memphis City Council approved the property transfer for a token $1 payment Tuesday, Dec. 21, on a unanimous vote.

    By Bill Dries December 22, 2021

  • Council members question Young Dolph’s legacy but rename street anyway

    The council voice vote was unanimous to rename a street for Young Dolph on Tuesday, Dec. 7, but it came after some council members questioned the honor given the lyrics of some of his music. 

    By Bill Dries December 15, 2021

• July 2021

  • Ida B. Wells returns to city with new statue

    The author of the definitive 2008 biography of the anti-lynching crusader and NAACP cofounder says the statue of Wells defines the city as well as honors her in a city whose leaders once talked of killing her. 

    By Bill Dries July 16, 2021

  • Lynching site’s a reminder of past victims

    A ceremony Thursday at the site of three lynchings more than a century ago was part of a week of Ida B. Wells events leading up to Friday’s statue unveiling. 

    By Rob Moore July 16, 2021

  • Ida B. Wells statue unveiling spotlights new issues

    A new monument on Beale Street honors the 19th century school teacher, journalist and anti-lynching figure. The recognition comes 130 years after Wells left the city just ahead of a mob that ransacked her newspaper office.

    By Bill Dries July 16, 2021

  • The To-Do List: A week for Ida B. Wells

    There’s plenty to do this week, including a celebration of Ida B. Wells, the investigative journalist and early civil rights leader. There are also exhibitions, music, beer tasting and, um, reptiles.

    By Rob Moore July 08, 2021

• June 2021

  • Ida B. Wells monument and plaza will stand at Beale and Fourth

    Four years after the removal of the monument for Confederate Army Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest, a statue of Ida B. Wells will stand in Memphis for the first time.

    By Rob Moore June 08, 2021

• May 2021

  • Opinion: New Wells documentary speaks to today’s reckoning with race

    Ida B. Wells’ words and actions put to shame efforts by state legislatures today – including ours in Tennessee – to ban the teaching of systemic racism and its detrimental impact on people of color.

    By Otis Sanford May 20, 2021

• March 2021

  • Council approves Ida B. Wells monument

    In addition to the Wells monument, the council approved two new sewer fees and a TIF agreement for Downtown.

    By Bill Dries March 16, 2021

• June 2020

  • Protesters remembered their Tennessee history when they met the statue of a racist

    Edward Carmack’s statue in the Tennessee Capitol was among several monuments linked to racism and the Confederacy that bit the dust or were defaced during protests over the senseless killing of African Americans by police and vigilantes.

    By Otis Sanford June 04, 2020

• May 2020

  • ‘Ida B. Wells Park’ strikes just the right note

    Renaming Health Sciences Park after Ida B. Wells would honor one of the city’s most underappreciated historic figures.

    By Otis Sanford May 21, 2020

  • Ida B. Wells awarded special Pulitzer citation in part for Memphis work

    Wells, whose journalistic roots were formed in the Memphis area, was honored by the Pulitzer Prize committee “For her outstanding and courageous reporting on the horrific and vicious violence against African Americans during the era of lynching.”

    By Omer Yusuf May 05, 2020

• December 2019

  • The Memphis 200 Chapter 3: Alice Mitchell, Overton Square, Piomingo and the Memphis Chicks

    The third of our four-part survey of the 200 people, places and events that have made Memphis what is was, what it is and what it could be. 

    By Bill Dries December 02, 2019

• August 2019

  • Herrington: Mayor’s race boys’ club, in defense of scooters and more

    Thoughts on Willie Herenton's attempt to make the Memphis mayor's race a two-man affair, the influx of scooters and the Memphis story at the National Museum of African American History and Culture. 

    By Chris Herrington August 06, 2019