Tag: Ida B. Wells

Mrs. Wells

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on July 6, 2026. Posted in Featured, General, Racism to Reconciliation. 6 Comments on Mrs. Wells

Ellen started it. Not me. Ellen Hebron, the Vicksburg writer who in the 1800s was devoted to the Southern cause. Her honorary membership in the Mississippi Press Association led me to ask if the MPA had so honored Ida B. Wells, who was from Holly Springs and wrote around the same time as Ellen. Two Mississippi writers, one a Confederate married...

It’s Official!

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on June 1, 2026. Posted in General, Racism to Reconciliation. 19 Comments on It’s Official!

It’s official! The Mississippi Press Association will induct Ida B. Wells into its Hall of Fame. Mrs. Wells is by many accounts the greatest journalist Mississippi has ever produced. Born in Holly Springs, she moved to Memphis to teach school. In 1892, when a white mob lynched Mrs. Wells’ friend and successful grocery man Thomas...

Anti-Lynching Today

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on May 16, 2022. Posted in Featured, General, Racism to Reconciliation. 2 Comments on Anti-Lynching Today

I cannot recommend this book on anti-lynching. In the original writings in The Light of Truth, Ida B. Wells aims to stop lynching by showing the facts. At the time, white America claimed lynching was a terrible but understandable reaction to Black men raping white women. It wasn’t. White Americans lynched Black Americans to enforce...

How to be a Winner in the New Normal

Written by Ellen Morris Prewitt on November 12, 2016. Posted in General, Racism to Reconciliation. 11 Comments on How to be a Winner in the New Normal

I’ve never been with a winner. Well, except that streak when the North Carolina Tar Heels won the NCAA Basketball tournament and the St. Louis Cardinals won the World Series and Peyton Manning and the Colts won the Super Bowl. That was an outlier. The problem is, I don’t tend to pick my “teams” based on winner...