Ida B. Wells and Tim Kalich will be included in Mississippi Press Hall of Fame

Ida B. Wells and Tim Kalich will be included in Mississippi Press Hall of Fame

Audio recording is automated for accessibility. Humans wrote and edited the story. The Mississippi Press Association will induct investigative journalist and civil rights advocate Ida B. Wells and former longtime publisher Tim Kalich into the Mississippi Press Hall of Fame in June. In 1892, after three of Wells’ friends were killed by a white mob in Memphis, the Holly Springs native began to document the lynchings of Black Americans. After a mob…