![]() Wells? Sylvia Plath? Charlotte Bronte?) Contributor Julie Schwietert Collazo talked to the editor behind the project, who says she’s been “blown away” by the response. Padnani explained that in the wake of Black Lives Matter and #MeToo, she, a woman of color, wondered how she could “advance the conversation” about injustice, discrimination and inequality in a meaningful way. It was the initiative everyone was talking about: The Times righting an old wrong and giving some amazing women long-overdue obituaries. Wells is one of the women who didn't get a New York Times obit.Īnna Padnani on The New York Times’ “Overlooked” obituaries. ![]() Pioneering investigative journalist Ida B. Born a century later, the writer Roxane Gay is also brave, challenging people’s prejudices about large woman and taking on her trolls. Wells was a brave, pioneering investigative journalist who fought for women’s rights and campaigned against lynching. Looking back at this week’s posts, I was struck by the similarities between two of the writers we spotlighted. Wells housing project in Chicago, named after the pioneering journalist. Children sing during a class at a community center in the Ida B.
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