Ida B. Wells: American Stories

Sunday, Feb. 26 at 7 p.m. on WETA World

There are few historical figures whose life and work speak to the current moment more than Ida B. Wells, the 19th-century crusading investigative journalist, civil rights leader and passionate suffragist. In the wake of her recent posthumous Pulitzer Prize citation, a Chicago street naming, and the release of her biography by her great-granddaughter Michelle Duster, this hour-long documentary tells Wells’ story as never before. The film paints a deeply humanizing portrait of a woman who was uncompromising in her quest for justice. The program tells her story through interviews with her descendants and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones.