These rarely-seen photographs of the Kent State Massacre provide a harrowing look at the day the '60s died.On May 4, 1970, at Ohio’s Kent State University, four American citizens were murdered by their own government. A line of 29 men of the Ohio National Guard marched up before a group of unarmed protesters and opened fire, killing four and wounding nine others. It’s an episode now burned into history as the Kent State Massacre. Read More...
On May 13, 1985, Ramona Africa was the only adult to survive the police bombing of the Philadelphia activist group MOVE — only to be thrown in jail afterward. MOVERamona Africa being escorted out of court in 1986 after being brought up on riot charges stemming from the MOVE bombing that would put her in prison for seven years.
For as long as she could remember, Ramona Africa wanted to be a lawyer. Read More...
From torture to witches to dismemberment, "Cat got your tongue" has origins more sinister than you ever imagined.Wikimedia Commons
We hear the question “Cat got your tongue?” all the time when someone teases another person about being at a loss for words. As the surprising story behind this common phrase reveals, it turns out that rendering someone literally speechless is precisely where the question “Cat got your tongue?” comes from. Read More...
