Select Articles Written by Michelle

Exceptional Black Women Shine Even as Mediocre White Men Whine, Rebellious Magazine, April 17, 2025 

#WeDone: Black Women Don't Need Permission to Flourish, Rebellious Magazine, 

March 29, 2025 

Time to Ban Anti-DEI Folks from Enjoying "DEI" Contributions, Rebellious Magazine, February 5, 2025 

January 20: One Day, Two Opposing Visions for the Disunited States of America, Rebellious Magazine, January 25, 2025 

Black Women: Choosing Dignity and Self-Respect Over Protocol and Playing Nice, 

Rebellious Magazine, January 19, 2025 

Renewal and Resolve to Start 2025 After the Joys and Challenges of the Holidays, Rebellious Magazine, December 31, 2024 

The 92 Percent of Us are Tired. The National Day of Rest for Black Women is a Start to Recharging, Rebellious Magazine, December 1, 2024 

In Anticipation of Surviving the 47th President, Strategies and Coalition-Building are Underway, Rebellious Magazine, November 17, 2024 

The Presidential Election Proved Black People (Especially Women) Need to Take Care of Ourselves, Rebellious Magazine, November 12, 2024 

I Vote to Honor the Past and Have a Say in the Present, Rebellious Magazine, 

November 1, 2024 

This Presidential Election Won't Break Black Women, Rebellious Magazine, 

October 31, 2024 

DNC: Family Reunion Feels, Nods to Trailblazers and a Focus on Moving Forward, Rebellious Magazine, September 14, 2024 

I Survived the RNC: Observations on MAGA World from a Progressive Black Chicago Woman, Rebellious Magazine, August 16, 2024

The Triggering Nature of the Jordan Chiles Olympic Medal Debacle, Rebellious Magazine, August 14, 2024

People of Color Do Not Need to Prove Patriotism, Rebellious Magazine, July 22, 2024

Juneteenth is Just the Beginning: Black Americans Still Deserve Economic Freedom, Rebellious Magazine, June 19, 2024

Mississippi as My Godmotherland, Rebellious Magazine, May 5, 2024

Their Ancestors Were Pillars of Civil Rights Movements. Now, They're Fighting Historical Erasure, Rebellious Magazine, April 9, 2024

Obstructing Black Women's Voices is a Form of Race-Based Violence, Ms. Magazine, November 10, 2021

Charting the History of Racial Violence in Chicago, The North Star, October 22, 2019

A New Exhibit Highlights Black Women's Fight for Voting Rights, The North Star, 

July 23, 2019

Lori Lightfoot's Historic Win Invokes Trailblazer Ida B. Wells, Refinery29, April 4, 2019

When White Women’s Silence Endangers Black Women, For “Truth-Telling: Frances Willard and Ida B. Wells” program, Frances Willard House Museum, March 2019

From the Suffrage Movement to the Women’s March: Black Women’s Fight for Inclusion, Black History Bulletin, Vol 42, No. 2, 2019

Michelle Obama is Proof That Black Women Can Become More Than Their Wildest Dreams, HuffPost, November 15, 2018 

Spinning at Night: African-American DJs at WDCR brought new sounds to the Upper Valley Ears, Dartmouth Alumni Magazine, March - April 2015

Providing a Fitting "Place" for World-Renowned Sculptor and Trailblazer Richard Hunt, Rebellious Magazine, October 23, 2024

Chicago Murals Celebrating Women: Fighting Erasure and Marginalization Through Public Art, History@work with National Council on Public History, January 16, 2024

Persistence Overcomes Resistance: Honoring Women Suffragists Through Public Artwork, Ms. Magazine, October 25, 2023

So few images of African American women, so much resistance to adding more, History@work with National Council on Public History, February 1, 2022

Remembering and Forgetting Confederate Monuments: Taking the Bitter with the Sweet, co-written with Stacy Boldrick, Richard Clay & Keith Magee, Sculpture Journal, Volume 31.1, 2022

A New Monument in Tennessee Highlights Black Women In The Suffrage Movement, The North Star, September 20, 2019

"IdaTrek" Honors Ida B. Wells By Promoting Health, Community and Heritage,

The North Star, August 25, 2019

The Women's Suffrage Movement Included More Than Two Women and So Should the Monuments, Essence, January 29, 2019

Charlottesville Was About White Men Controlling History, HuffPost, August 10, 2018 

A Monumental Woman: Monuments make history visible and tangible, but African American women are grossly underrepresented, Lenny Letter, August 7, 2018

Ida B. Wells:  How grassroots support and social media made a monumental difference in honoring her legacy, The Conversation, August 7, 2018 

New Coin Celebrates the Living Legacy of Ida B. Wells, Smithsonian American Women's History Museum, December 30, 2024

My great-grandmother Ida B. Wells left a legacy of activism in education. We need that now, Washington Post, February 11, 2021

Ida B. Wells was a Reporter, Activist, and Leader.  She Also Had Great Hair,

Glamour, February 8, 2021

My great-grandmother exposed lynchings.  This is what she would say about the Capitol riot, CNN Opinion, February 3, 2021

Kamala Harris and My Great-Grandma Ida B. Wells Have Much in Common (Including Feminist Husbands), People, February 2, 2021

Collaboration for Justice:  How History's More Inclusive Past Foretells our Future, 

Co-written with A'Lelia Bundles The Hill, August 24, 2020

I'm Ida B. Wells's Great-Granddaughter and I'm Still Fighting Her Fight for the Vote, 

TIME, August 17, 2020

The Legacy of Ida B Wells and the Struggle for Racial Justice at "Ole Miss"

The North Star, April 28, 2019

Ida B. Wells Drive: More Than A Street, The North Star, February 18, 2019

Ole' Miss Journalism School Should Be Named After Ida B. Wells, HuffPost, 

October, 27, 2018  

Remembering Ida B. Wells's Legacy: An Educator, Feminist, and Anti-Lynching Civil Rights Leader, Teen Vogue, September 20, 2018    

Chicago Should be Proud to Honor Ida B. Wells, Chicago Sun-Times, May 29, 2018  

Ida B. Wells,Quill Magazine, January 20, 2009 

This Professor Protested a School's Racism.  Then He Lost His Job, Daily Beast, 

January 23, 2021

A Centennial Reflection, Women's Suffrage Centennial Commission, August 2020

Confronting Segregation and Racism in the Women's Rights Movement, The North Star, June 25, 2019

Activists Confront The Painful History of Lynching,The North Star, May 21, 2019 

Suffragists Paved the Way for the First Black Female Mayor of Chicago,

The North Star, March 21, 2019