Media 2070: An Invitation to Dream Up Media Reparations - Article / Essay - Page 39
In May 2020, journalist and human-rights activist
Ida B. Wells-Barnett was posthumously
awarded a Pulitzer Prize...
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An early muckraker, she attracted the ire of those
who benefited from the unjust systems she exposed.
Wells’s campaign against lynching, for which she won
recognition, brought unprecedented scrutiny to American
mob violence. She published numerous investigative
newspaper reports, editorials and pamphlets denouncing
lynching as a form of racial terrorism.
Sara L. Silkey, “Ida B. Wells Won the Pulitzer. Here’s Why That Matters,”
The Washington Post, May 7, 2020:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/05/07/ida-b-wells-won-pulitzer-heres-why-that-matters/
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