PUBLIC HISTORY PROJECTS

Public History Projects

• Ida B. Wells quarter - U. S. Mint (2025)
• Richard Hunt Place (honorary street name) - Chicago, IL (2024)
• Annual Ida B. Wells Festival: Celebrating Bronzeville (last Sat. in June) - Chicago, IL (2022 - present)
• Speak Up and Votes for Women murals - Chicago, IL (2023)
• Ida B. Wells Doll - Mattel (2022)
• On the Wings of Change (mural of 10 Chicago-area suffragists) - Chicago, IL (2021)
• Light of Truth: Ida B. Wells National Monument - Chicago, IL (2021)

       (final pieces installed 2025)

• Ida B. Wells Way (honorary street name) - Chicago, IL (2019)
• Ida B. Wells Homes Historical Marker - Chicago, IL (2019, upgraded in 2023)
• Ida B. Wells Drive (official street name change from Congress Parkway) - Chicago, IL (2018)
• Founder's Garden at Ida B. Wells-Barnett Museum - Holly Springs, MS (2013)
• Historical Marker for Jim and Elizabeth Wells - Holly Springs, MS (2011)
• ASALH Film Festival (2012-2018) - various cities 
• A Question of Color - documentary film by Kathe Sandler (1993)
• Ida B. Wells: A Passion for Justice - documentary film by William Greaves (1989)

Documentary Film Appearances

• The Light of Truth:  A Monument for Ida B. Wells, Rana Segal (2024)
• Ida B. Wells--The Light of Truth, Free to Choose Network, (2023)
• Sankofa Chicago, Vanessa Wright (2022)
• Facing Down Storms: Memphis and the Making of Ida B. Wells, University of Memphis, (2022)
• Ida B. Wells: A Chicago Stories Special Documentary, WTTW (2021)
• BOSS: The Black Experience in Business Firelight Media (2019)

Select Voiceovers for Films and Podcasts

• We Have Just Begun (about 1919 Elaine, AR race massacre), Michael Warren Wilson (2023)
• "The Daily": Women We Overlooked (segment on Ida B. Wells), New York Times, (2018)

Major Projects in the Works

• Large-scale mural of Richard Hunt in Chicago, Chris Devins (artist) - (anticipated 2026)
• Large-scale murals of suffragists in New York City and Portland, OR, 

       co-directed with Neysa Page-Lieberman. Monumenta projects. -   

       (anticipated 2026-27)

• Women's Suffrage National Monument, Washington, DC