After struggling with severe drug and alcohol addiction since the age of 13, Cory Monteith died tragically on July 13, 2013.On July 13, 2013, just a few months after he had admitted himself into a substance addiction treatment facility, Glee star Cory Monteith was found dead in his room at the Fairmont Pacific Rim Hotel in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Since he was just 31 years old, the heartbreaking news of Cory Monteith’s death was a shock to his loved ones and fans. Read More...
In July 1949, Norma Padgett accused four Black men of sexually assaulting her and violent mobs quickly formed to bring her attackers to justice — destroying the lives of four innocent men.In 1949, four young Black men were accused of raping a white teenager in Florida. One of the Groveland Four was soon killed by an angry mob, while another was murdered by the county sheriff himself. The other two men spent years in prison before they were released on parole. Read More...
Despite being born into slavery and orphaned at 16, Ida B. Wells became a renowned journalist, an anti-lynching advocate, and a founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.About 70 years before Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama bus, a Black woman named Ida B. Wells refused to leave her seat in the whites-only section of a Nashville-bound train.
But after she was thrown off, Wells sued the railroad company — and won, kicking off a historic career in social activism that lasted the rest of her life. Read More...
