Google includes Ida B. Wells among the 13 women honored on an International Women's Day doodle.
Hollywood failed Nina Simone with her biopic, but we know the powers that be can do better. Women’s History Month has inspired us to think about all of the incredible Black women that we’d love to see in theaters. Whether they’re names that we grew up hearing about and celebrating, or more recent Sheroes, our […]
1926 Carter G Woodson ~ (the Father of Black History) initiates “Negro History Week” 1960 First sit-in ~ Black college students stage a sit-in at a segregated lunch counter in Greensboro, NC, beginning the first of the historic sit-ins of the 1960s 1990 Ida B Wells ~ (reformer who first gathered statistical records on lynchings […]
Google Doodle features Chicago civil rights icon Ida B. Wells: http://t.co/SRXM8E618R pic.twitter.com/u4gWxW8N8K — Chicago Sun-Times (@Suntimes) July 16, 2015 Today, Google Doodle celebrates the 135th…
via EEW Magazine Ida B. Wells, a highly gifted writer and civil rights activist, has been honored with a Google Doodle. July 16 marks the 153rd birthday of the fearless intellectual who was already editor of two papers by the age of 25: the Memphis-based Free Speech and Headlight. In 1884, a 22-year-old Wells was […]
