{"id":5406,"date":"2020-05-14T15:35:24","date_gmt":"2020-05-14T15:35:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/?p=5406"},"modified":"2020-05-22T18:47:38","modified_gmt":"2020-05-22T18:47:38","slug":"biography-about-journalist-ida-b-wells-to-be-released-in-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/biography-about-journalist-ida-b-wells-to-be-released-in-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Biography About Journalist Ida B. Wells To Be Released In 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_5407\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5407\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5407\" src=\"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/AP20135484464279-e1589470417561.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"569\" title=\"\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5407\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE &#8211; In this Dec. 2, 2011 file photo, Michelle Duster, great-granddaughter of civil rights pioneer Ida B. Wells who led a crusade against lynching during the early 20th century, holds a portrait of Wells in her home in Chicago&#8217;s South Side. Duster\u2019s biography of the pioneering African-American journalist and activist, \u201cIda B. the Queen\u201d will come out next February. (AP Photo\/Charles Rex Arbogast, File)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 The great-granddaughter of Ida B. Wells is writing a biography of the pioneering African-American journalist and activist.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>One Signal Publishers announced Thursday that Michelle Duster&#8217;s &#8220;Ida B. the Queen&#8221; will come out next February. Duster will collaborate on the book with Atlantic staff writer Hannah Giorgis.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Duster is an author and educator who has spoken often about the legacy of Wells and previously worked on the books &#8220;Ida from Abroad&#8221; and &#8220;Ida In Her Own Words.&#8221; Earlier this month, Wells was honored with a posthumous Pulitzer Prize, noting &#8220;her outstanding and courageous reporting&#8221; on lynchings.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Wells was a journalist and publisher in the late 1800s and early 1900s and later helped found civil rights and women&#8217;s suffrage groups. Ida B. Wells-Barnett died in 1931.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;After working on various projects for over 30 years, it is exciting to finally see my great-grandmother&#8217;s sacrifice and legacy be fully recognized,&#8221; Duster said in a statement. &#8220;Ida&#8217;s life is well-known in some communities, but &#8216;Ida B. the Queen&#8217; will introduce her to a wider and different audience. I hope her story will inspire people to live their own truths as Ida did.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>One Signal is an imprint of Simon &amp; Schuster.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 The great-granddaughter of Ida B. Wells is writing a biography of the pioneering African-American journalist and activist. One Signal Publishers announced Thursday that Michelle Duster&#8217;s &#8220;Ida B. the Queen&#8221; will come out next February. Duster will collaborate on the book with Atlantic staff writer Hannah Giorgis. Duster is an author and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":5407,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174],"tags":[694,31,986],"class_list":["post-5406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books-books","tag-associated-press","tag-featured","tag-ida-b-wells"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}