NEW YORK — 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’s “Ida B. the Queen” will come out in February. Duster will collaborate on the book with Atlantic staff writer Hannah Giorgis.
Duster is an author and educator who has spoken often about the legacy of Wells and previously worked on the books “Ida from Abroad” and “Ida In Her Own Words.” Earlier this month, Wells was honored with a posthumous Pulitzer Prize, noting “her outstanding and courageous reporting” on lynchings.
Wells was a journalist and publisher in the late 1800s and early 1900s and later helped found civil rights and women’s suffrage groups. Ida B. Wells-Barnett died in 1931.
