Ida B. Wells used a newspaper as a weapon. In the 1890s, she investigated lynchings across the South — not with outrage alone, but with documentation. Names. Dates. Locations. Facts that couldn't be waved away. What she found broke the myth. Lynching wasn't about crime. It was about power — a tool to keep Black communities from gaining economic and political ground. The truth was too dangerous to ignore. In 1892, a mob burned her Memphis newspaper office to the ground while she was out of town. She never got to go back. She moved to Chicago. Kept writing. Kept naming names. They could burn a building. They couldn't burn the work. Swipe through her story. And when you're done — tell us: whose name deserves to be said more? #RoadTo250 · March On! Festival · Sept 29–Oct 6, 2026 · marchonfest.org