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RECENT STORIES
How Places Connected to Emmett Till's Lynching Foster Remembrance and Reflection - Preservation Magazine, Spring 2023
Chicago Mural Featuring Kamala Harris Faces Opposition - Streetwise, March 22 - 28, 2023 (pgs. 12-13)
Making Ida B. Wells - WBEZ podcast with Caitlin Dickerson and Paula Giddings, (37 mins)
December 8, 2022
National monuments in Washington, D.C. are missing a big piece of American history: women, USA Today, October 16, 2022
Red, White, and Blue at the Chicago History Museum, Chicago Classic Magazine, July 16, 2022
Conversation with Kibin Allyne about Emmett Till Antilynching Law, Open BxRx on Bronx Net TV, April 12, 2022
Michelle Duster on the Complexities of Being Ida B. Wells's Great-Granddaughter, Washington Post, April 5, 2022
The Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Law: Till’s Cousin and Ida B. Wells’s Great-Granddaughter Respond, Democracy Now (21.54 mins), April 1, 2022
Ida B. Wells Barbie doll keeps legacy alive in the face of ‘critical race theory’ pushback The Grio, February 22, 2022
Mattel Honors Ida B. Wells in Inspiring Women's Series, NBC News Now with Joshua Johnson (6.30 mins), February 19, 2022
Washington Post Live with Robin Givhan, Race in America Series, (31.08 mins) February 1, 2022
Carrying On Ida's Wells' Legacy, GMA3, (2.18 mins) February 1, 2022
Reclaiming Monuments: The Light of Truth Memorializes Ida B. Wells' Activism in Chicago New City Art, October 9, 2021
On Juneteenth descendants of America's black change-makers speak out about preserving ancestors' legacy (5:09 mins) ABC News, June 19, 2021
Michelle Duster: A Descendant Goes to Work and Reclaims History Through Her Writing Arkansas Press Women, June 9, 2021
ABC News Prime with Linsey Davis, (4:30 mins) May 4, 2021
Generations of Activism: What One Woman Can Do, Access Health News, March 16, 2021
How Ida B. Wells Became a Civil Rights Hero, Inside Edition, (4:30 mins)
February 14, 2021
Author Talks: Michelle Duster on the legacy of Ida B. Wells (4.58 mins)
McKinsey & Company, February 12, 2021
On Life and Legacy of Ida B. Wells (17 mins)
CBS This Morning Podcast, February 10, 2021
Good Day Atlanta, February 8, 2021 (3:03 mins)
Good Day LA, February 5, 2021 (4:53 mins)
Chicago Tribune, January 28, 2021
The Life and Legacy of Ida B. Wells
NPR's 1A with Jenn White, (30 mins) January 26, 2021
Ida B the Queen: New Book Examines Legacy of Trailblazing Journalist
Chicago Tonight "Black Voices", (7:13 mins) January 24, 2021
RADIO, TELEVISION, PODCAST SEGMENTS (2009 - 2020)
Black Women Among America's Most Active Voters (7:51 mins)
Chicago Tonight "Black Voices", October 11, 2020
A century after the ratification of the 19th Amendment, the fight for women's suffrage continues (5:20 mins) CBS This Morning, August 21, 2020
Inside the Black Suffrage Movement (1.57 mins)
NBC Nightly News with Andrea Mitchell, August 18, 2020
My Start Story Celebrates: Suffragist Ida B. Wells (58 secs) Start TV, August 18, 2020
Wells, Hannah-Jones Awarded Pulitzer Prize in 2020 for Journalism (3:45 mins)
AMJoy May 9, 2020
Conversation with Professor Michelle Duster, (61 mins) Cite Black Women Podcast, July 16, 2019
Monumental Women: Breaking the Bronze Ceiling (7:39 mins)
CBS This Morning, May 26, 2019
Up With Ida: A Monumental Teach-In at University of Mississippi
Monument Lab Podcast, April 3, 2019
Chicago's Congress Parkway Renamed After Civil Rights Leader Ida B. Wells
WGN9, February 11, 2019
Memorial dedicated to horror of slavery, lynching pays homage to Chicago icon
WGN9, July 25, 2018
How to Change Public Perception, Sistas on Fire with Natasha Nurse (25 mins)
June 1, 2018
Could Chicago's first statue of a woman be an Ida B. Wells monument in Bronzeville? WBEZ Morning Edition with Tony Sarabia, August 7, 2015
Meet Michelle Duster, Great-granddaughter of Ida B. Wells Sistas on Fire with Marcia McNair, September 2011
Old Westbury Web Radio (10 mins) February 2011
Ida B. Wells, Chicago Tonight with Phil Ponce (6 mins) WTTW, February 2009
NEWSPAPER & MAGAZINE ARTICLES (2013 - 2020)
Time for a Reckoning: Chicago Reckons With Its Public Art Problem
New City Art, October 1, 2020
100 Years Later, These Activists Continue Their Ancestors’ Work
The New York Times, August 7, 2020
Legacy of Ida B. Wells Through Her Great-Granddaughter's Eyes
Chicago Defender, July 19, 2020
Michelle Duster, Carrying on the Legacy of Ida B. Wells
Classic Chicago Magazine, July 12, 2020
Biography of Ida B. Wells Coming Out in 2021, Publisher Says
Associated Press, May 14, 2020
Suffrage, Race, Power Unerased
Chicago Tribune, August 19, 2019
Plaque and Honorary Street Sign Unveiled in Memory of Ida B. Wells
Chicago Defender, July 25, 2019
Pritzker Proclaims Juneteenth in Illinois
OneIllinois, June 19, 2019
Legacy: Family Members Keep Historical Figures Names Alive
Chicago Defender, March 3, 2019 (pg 3)
Ida B. Wells Finally Gets Top Honor With a Street Name
Chicago Sun-Times, February 11, 2019
The Overlooked Legacy of Ida B. Wells
South Side Weekly, November 6, 2018
What We Learned at the Chicago Humanities Festival This Weekend
Chicago Reader, November 5, 2018
Columbia College Faculty Member Has Newly Released Book About Michelle Obama Columbia College Chicago, September 4, 2018
How these women raised $42k in a day for an Ida B. Wells monument
Fast Company, August 8, 2018
Ida B. Wells gets her street — City Council approves renaming Congress in her honor Chicago Tribune, July 25, 2018
There Are No Ida B Wells Monuments in America. Her Great-Granddaughter is Out to Change That Shondaland, July 16, 2018
‘You can’t just gloss over this history’: The movement to honor Ida B. Wells gains momentum Washington Post, June 15, 2018
Ida B. Wells' Old Advice for the NAACP's New Direction HuffPost, May 22, 2017
Living With History The Root, February 13, 2017
Moving through the changes for Women Daily Iowan, July 28, 2016
The Descendants The Grio, February 23, 2013