Ida B. Wells and the campaign against lynching
By Richard Campbell | February 16, 2026"Long before there was Rosa Parks, there was Ida B. Wells."
"Long before there was Rosa Parks, there was Ida B. Wells."
These words — biased, boring and bad — describe U.S. teenagers’ “perceptions of news media and journalism,” according to the latest News Literacy Project.
“It is the discipline of verification,” Bill Kovach once wrote, “that separates journalism from entertainment, propaganda, fiction, or art.”
“If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.” – George Washington, 1783