New Barbie to honor journalist and activist Ida B. Wells CBSVillage
is dedicated to spotlighting heroes who paved the way for generations of girls to dream big and make a difference. Civil rights activist Rosa Parks, nurse Florence Nightingale, singer Ella Fitzgerald, disability advocate Hellen Keller, poet and civil rights activist Maya Angelou and astronaut Sally Ride are also featured as Barbies in the series.
The post sharing the news about the Wells doll on Instagram included a quote from her:"The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them." Wells became the editor and co-owner of the Memphis Free Speech and Headlight, which was was destroyed by a white lynch mob. After losing her friends to hate crimes and racial violence, she wrote"She was also one of the founders of the NAACP civil rights organization.
Wells earned a posthumous Pulitzer citation in 2020."Here is this woman, born in slavery, who provided the template for the type of journalism I wanted to do, the type of person I wanted to be," journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones Michelle Miller last year."She was one of the nation's first investigative reporters. ... She's the reason that we began to catalog the number of lynchings."
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