WASHINGTON — Journalist and civil rights activist Ida B. Wells is the latest historical icon to be honored by Mattel with a Barbie doll in her likeness. Wells, who was born a slave in 1862 in ...

The latest doll to join Barbie's Inspiring Women series is Ida B. Wells, a journalist and early leader in the civil rights movement who not only fought for Black equality, but for that of women.

Ida B. Wells, journalist and activist famous for launching an anti-lynching campaign, will have her legacy honored with a new signature Barbie doll. Born into slavery, Wells would go on to become an ...

Barbie is continuing its ongoing "Inspiring Women" series by honoring trailblazing journalist, suffragist and civil rights activist Ida B. Wells with a doll in her image. The new doll, which will ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Congress Parkway had been rechristened Ida B. Wells Drive several months ago, but seeing the new street signs go up on the busy thoroughfare was still emotional for her descendants.

The prominent Black female figures are among the United States Mint’s honorees for the 2025 American Women Quarters Program, which is in its fourth and final year. The faces of two prominent Black ...

On October 5, 1892, journalist and activist Ida B. Wells addressed a packed house at New York’s Lyric Hall. The subject was lynching. Wells had recently published an editorial that exposed the lies ...

In the late 19th and early 20th century, African American journalist Ida B. Wells covered stories that weren't being told elsewhere. She was also a women's rights leader. A statue of the journalist ...