This Women’s History Month, we’re taking a look at a special series of quarters honoring notable American women. This is the ...

Dr. Amy Gais is a Lecturer in the Department of Political Science and Comparative Literature and Thought at Washington University in St. Louis. She is the author of The Coerced Conscience (Cambridge ...

Telling the stories of people like Ida B. Wells provides essential lessons about how to persevere against such attacks. For ...

Wolf was in the restroom at the club in the early morning hours of June 12, 2016, when a man walked into a nearby room with ...

Maxine Smith, Dorothy Truitt Walk and Cornelia Crenshaw were civil rights leaders who challenged injustice and made a ...

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 ...

Black Women’s Clubs in Chicago were part of the movement for African American rights, and there were many more women involved ...

When Michelle Duster — author, historian, public speaker and great-granddaughter of famed Black journalist and activist Ida B. Wells — learned that a school named after Woodrow Wilson in ...