Wells
Ida B. Wells is an African American civil rights advocate, journalist, and feminist. She is an American Hero. View a short video about her work to guarantee access to the vote. Wells was born enslaved in Holly Springs, Mississippi in 1862. She was the oldest daughter of James and Lizzie Wells. During Reconstruction, her parents […]
The nation’s largest banks are churning out profits as interest rates remain high, even though the lenders have had to set aside billions of dollars to replenish a deposit insurance fund that was heavily depleted by a crisis among midsize banks last spring. Profits for the fourth quarter of 2023 reported on Friday by JPMorgan […]
Workers at a Wells Fargo branch in New Mexico voted to form a union late Wednesday, becoming the first employees at a U.S. megabank to unionize. Employees at an Albuquerque location favored unionization by a margin of 5-3, establishing a small outpost for organized labor at a company that operates more than 4,000 branches and […]
Photo: Getty Images Star athlete Althea Gibson and NAACP co-founder Ida B. Wells are set to be featured on quarters in 2025. According to The Root, Gibson and Wells are among the five women who will be highlighted on 2025 quarters, the U.S. Mint announced. The 2025 quarters are the last set of a four-year, […]
The US Mint has announced its 2025 American Women Quarters Program honorees. Two of which are iconic Black women, Ida B. Wells and Althea Gibson. Ida B. Wells was an investigative journalist, suffragist, and civil rights activist, who co-founded the NAACP. She was also an active participant in the women’s club and suffrage movements and later engaged in […]
Federal prosecutors on Friday said the former head of Wells Fargo’s retail banking division should serve a year of imprisonment for “obstruction of a banking examination.” They also requested “one year of supervised release” following the sentence for Carrie Tolstedt, who pleaded guilty to the charge earlier this year. She was the only executive at […]
“For the second time this year, Wells Fargo acknowledged that deposits were not showing up in customers’ accounts,” reports NBC News: In an emailed statement Friday morning, a Wells Fargo representative said the issue was affecting a “limited number of customers,” and that “the vast majority” of instances had been resolved before noon, while the […]
June 23 (Reuters) – SolarWinds (SWI.N) said on Friday some of its former and current executives had been issued a Wells notice by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission over a massive 2020 data breach tied to the software firm.
The Biden administration has supercharged existing efforts by putting billions toward the problem. While exact figures are tough to come by, experts believe hundreds of thousands of orphan wells remain around the country. April 11, 2023 at 7:00 a.m. EDT Workers cap an orphaned well near Oil City, La., on March 8. (Cooper Neill for […]
Novak Djokovic is again set to miss Indian Wells and the Miami Open after United States travel authorities extended the requirement for non-US nationals to be vaccinated. Although coronavirus rules have been relaxed or removed in many countries, proof of vaccination will be needed to enter the United States until at least April 10. Source […]