Instagram artist Becca Saladin transforms famous names from the past into modern-day people — and the results are stunning. King Henry VIIIKnown as much for breaking with the Catholic Church as he was for his string of controversial divorces, King Henry VIII is perhaps one of English history's most famous rulers.Instagram/@royalty_now_ Anne BoleynOne of King Henry VIII's six wives was Anne Boleyn, pictured here, and she became the first British queen to be beheaded after she fell out of favor with him. Read More...
Ciara Meyer, 12, was described as loving and kind by her neighbor Sarah Harman. Image Source: Facebook
On January 11, a 12-year-old girl in Pennsylvania was fatally shot by a state constable (a law enforcement officer who serves summons and enforces evictions, among other things) who was serving an eviction notice to her family. The girl, Ciara Meyer, was an innocent bystander in an eviction gone horribly wrong.
Today, largely due to rent hikes, millions across the United States are facing eviction. Read More...
In the 1960s, Floyd McKissick laid out a plan for a utopian, black-managed town in the American South that he called Soul City. Here's how it happened -- and what became of it.Monica Berra/Vimeo
FOR DECADES, Warren County, North Carolina was a site of extraction. Acres upon acres of tobacco plants wrested nutrients from the soil; plantation owners wrung wealth from the labor of slaves. While the plantations eventually shuttered and slavery came to an official close, the county — and others like it — continued to dwindle as many of its residents abandoned it for economic opportunity elsewhere, often in Northern, urban environments. Read More...
