Even though he's a Black man, Daryl Davis has successfully befriended and converted some 200 Ku Klux Klan members and neo-Nazis.Daryl DavisFor more than three decades, Daryl Davis has dedicated much of his life to converting members of the Ku Klux Klan.
Daryl Davis is a blues musician, author, and lecturer with an unusual and inspiring mission. While traveling throughout the United States over the course of the last three-plus decades, he’s sought out members of the Ku Klux Klan as well as other white supremacist organizations — and gotten them to change their ways.
Police arrested Robert John Lanoue, 70, and charged him with the 1982 murder of five-year-old Anne Pham.Seaside PoliceAnne Pham’s brutal murder went unsolved for 40 years.
On Jan. 21, 1982, five-year-old Anne Pham begged her mother to let her walk the three blocks from her family’s home in Seaside, California, to her elementary school. Somewhere along the way, a stranger abducted, sexually assaulted, and strangled her. Now, after 40 years, police say they have finally solved her gruesome murder — and named her killer.
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Much has been said and written about Steve McQueen’s “12 Years a Slave,” the film adaption of an 1853 autobiography by Solomon Northup, a free black man who was kidnapped in Washington, D.C. and sold into slavery in 1841. A realistic depiction of the brutality of slavery, the film has been hailed as long overdue, especially because it’s based on a memoir that McQueen said kept him wondering why he had never heard of it before.
Tug of War For 20 years, from 1900 to 1920, tug of war wasn't just a kid's game — it was an Olympic sport. Stockholm, Sweden. 1912.
Wikimedia Commons Hot Air Ballooning One of the many unofficial events at the 1900 Olympics in Paris, hot air balloon racing, had several different events. Pilots competed for distance, elevation, and duration over 18 separate events.
Wikimedia Commons Firefighting During the 1900 Olympics in Paris, professional firefighters competed in tests of endurance.
After getting fired from his nursing job, Grant Amato became obsessed with a Bulgarian webcam model named Silviya Ventsislavova — and his fixation led to a murderous rampage in 2019.Joe Burbank/Orlando Sentinel/TNS/Alamy Live NewsGrant Amato repeatedly stole money from his family to chat with a cam model named “Silvie.”
Grant Amato hit rock bottom after being fired from his nursing job. He struggled to find employment in the field and decided to try his hand at streaming on Twitch instead.