Paweł Pawlikowski’s Academy Award-winning 2013 film Ida has drawn acclaim and controversy. Sheila Skaff explains the film's historical setting and provides p

Dominated by men and bound by the restrictive Hays Code, postwar Hollywood offered little support for a female director who sought to make unique films on contr

Ida's Line tells the story of Ida Joubert, a young woman, coming of age during a period of growing racial hatred in Oudtshoorn, South Africa in the 1930's and 1

Pioneering African American journalist Ida B. Wells-Barnett (1862-1931) is widely remembered for her courageous antilynching crusade in the 1890s; the full rang

Pulitzer Prize Board citation to Ida B. Wells, as an early pioneer of investigative journalism and civil rights icon From a thinker who Maya Angelou has praised