The news brings an anticlimactic end to new inquiries into one of the most infamous lynchings in American history. In August of that year, Till, just 14 at the time, was visiting relatives in Money, Mississippi, from his hometown of Chicago when he was accused of harassing a white woman, 21-year-old Carolyn Bryant, in her […]
Sham legal proceedings led to the deaths of 25 innocent people—including How, who was hanged for her “crimes” later that year, reports Pamela Reynolds for WBUR. Thanks to an ongoing exhibition at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, internet users can now explore a handful of transcribed records from the witch hunt—among them, files related […]
Scientist Bernd Schöllhorn was exploring a forest in northern Vietnam when he spotted something usual though the foliage: a radiant green orb. The glow from the paper wasp nest was particularly intense, with sections of the exposed paper comb visible from up to 60 feet away, according to the study published in the Journal of […]
Last summer, an unidentified individual browsing a donation center at the entrance of an Ontario landfill purchased a portrait for $5 CAD . Part of the musician’s Dead Heads, or D Head, series, the 1997 painting is up for sale through June 24. The 9.75- by 8-inch portrait shows a loosely painted head surrounded by […]
Of the three, the 1933 “Double Eagle” stole the show, becoming the world’s most valuable coin by selling for a whopping $18.9 million. As Owen Edwards reported for Smithsonian magazine in 2008, the sculptor based the figure of Liberty on Harriette Eugenia Anderson, a well-known model of African American descent from South Carolina. In 1933, […]