NPC Virtual Book Event: Michelle Duster, "Ida B. the Queen"
Feb 23 2021
WHEN:
Feb 23, 2021 at 2:30pm
WHERE:
Online
CONTACT INFO:
Lindsay Underwood
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NPC Book Event
The great-granddaughter of crusading journalist Ida B. Wells, author Michelle Duster, will discuss her new book Ida B. The Queen: The Extraordinary Life and Legacy of Ida B. Wells, at a National Press Club Virtual Book Event on Tuesday, February 23 at 2:30 p.m. ET.
This one-hour program will stream live on the Club’s website and YouTube Channel, and is accessible to both the media and members of the general public free-of-charge. Viewers are invited to submit their questions for Duster in advance or during the live program via email to [email protected]. Please put "Wells" in the subject line.
Duster came of age during the 1970s in Chicago hearing stories about her great-grandmother, who during her lifetime (1862-1931) was known around the world for her courageous investigative reporting of attacks on Black people and her campaign to expose and abolish lynching.
In Ida B. The Queen, Duster writes of her own struggles as a young person to find a place in the world. Duster realized that new generations needed to learn the story of Ida B. Wells, and that as a descendant and a writer she was uniquely positioned to be the “keeper of the flame.”