A long-neglected champion of the people, Ida B. Wells, has been remembered by the Chicago City Council this summer as it renamed a prominent downtown street for her. Wells is remembered as a courageous journalist who exposed lawless lynch mobs in Memphis, TN, in the 1890s. She was also a pioneering newspaper editor, and a women’s rights advocate. Renaming Congress Parkway as Ida B. Wells Drive comes as Wells’s descendants are preparing to commemorate her with a monument, also in Chicago, says the New York Times in an article published July 31. Wells was also remembered in another Oct. 15, 2018 article. For more information about the history of minority media in America, see this feature article, Civil Rights and the Press, at Revolutions in Communication.