Tag: ida b. wells

Wednesday January 30, 7pm A Permanent Accusation: Art Confronts Lynching and Other Acts of Inhumanity Moonstone Arts Center, 110A S. 13th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107, 215-735-9600 Art, in all its forms, is powerful. Poems and music, paintings and dance make us feel as well as think. Art produces the “affect,” the internalized feeling and emotional…

Wednesday January 30, 5pm Why Black Media? A Panel Discussion Department of Journalism of the Temple School of Media and Communication First Floor Atrium of Annenberg hall, on 13th street between Norris and Diamond Streets Over 100 years ago Ida B. Wells, one of the first investigative journalists and one of the first black women…

Thursday January 31, 2013, 7pm A Discussion on Ida B. Wells with John Bracey, Paula Giddings & Sonia Sanchez District 1199C Philadelphia Headquarters, 1319 Locust St, Philadelphia, PA 19107, 215-735-1300 No lectures, no scripts, just three amazing, intelligent people discussing an ancestor, a “shero,” an inspiration and her relevance to today. Do you know how…

Sunday February 3, 2013 – 2pm The Continuum of Abuse: Slavery, Black Laws, Contract Labor, Jim Crow, Lynching, Prison/Industrial Complex, Death Penalty Ethical Humanist Society of Philadelphia, 1906 S. Rittenhouse Square, 215-735-3456 How come executions in the 21st Century follow the same pattern that lynching did in the 19th Century?  It is significant that the…

Saturday January 26, 2013 – 7pm To Tell the Truth Freely: The Life of Ida B. Wells A Discussion with Mia Bay, Michael Coard and Linn Washington  Moderated by Erica Armstrong Dunbar  Moonstone Arts Center, 110A S. 13th Street, second floor, 215-735 9600 Two historians, a lawyer and a journalist discuss Ida B. Wells and…

Saturday January 26, 2013 – 10am To Tell the Truth Freely: The Life of Ida B. Wells African American Museum in Philadelphia, 701 Arch Street, 215-574-0380 A Teacher Workshop with Mia Bay – Act 48 Credits are available Contact Melvin Garrison, 215-4000-5694, garrison@philasd.org Co-sponsored by the School District of Philadelphia’s Teaching American History Grant Program…

Pam Africa is the coordinator for the International Concerned Family and Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal and stands as a contemporary figure in the tradition of the early women’s rights advocates who were also fighters against slavery, for the betterment of the working classes, and for the freedom of political prisoners. She is a world significant…

Wednesday January 23, 4pm Cecil B. Moore Branch Library, 2320 Cecil B. Moore Avenue, 215-685-2766 Ida B. Wells: A Passion for Justice and the Cecil B. Moore Philadelphia Freedom Fighters– Co-sponsored by:   Cecil B. Moore Philadelphia Freedom Fighters and the Charles L. Blockson Afro-American Collection, Temple University Libraries, Hosted by Cecil B. Moore Branch…

“Although lynchings have steadily increased in number and barbarity during the last twenty years, there has been no single effort put forth by the many moral and philanthropic forces of the country to put a stop to this wholesale slaughter.” “Brave men do not gather by thousands to torture and murder a single individual, so…

Film Ida B. Wells: A Passion for Justice documents the dramatic life and turbulent times of the pioneering African American journalist, activist, suffragist and anti-lynching crusader of the post-Reconstruction period. A fuller description of the film is attached. Books Ida B. Wells: Let the Truth be Told, Walter Dean Meyers, ages 8/9, Harper, $16.99 An…