In August 1955, 14-year-old Emmett was beaten and shot to death after he allegedly whistled at Bryant – now Donham – in Money.
Later, her husband, Roy Bryant, and J.W. Milam, took Emmett from his bed and ordered him into the back of a pickup truck and beat him before shooting him in the head and tossing his body into the Tallahatchie River. They were both acquitted of murder by an all-White jury following a trial in which Carolyn Bryant testified that Emmett grabbed and verbally threatened her.
Washington becomes 10th state to ban assault weapons sales
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In addition to those models, the ban applies to all semiautomatic rifles less than 30 inches in length, as well as other semiautomatic firearms with features such as thumbhole stocks and additional hand grips.
How the Alphabet Done You Wrong…And What to Do Instead
but the alphabet is causing us trouble
and so I’m going to talk about why
I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For (U2 Cover)
I have runI have crawledI have scaledThese city walls
The 411 on 4 Types of Reading Errors
what did I do I definitely tapped his attention to the
thing that was missing and I underlined it
NYTimes and Washington Post Punches down
it’s also part of a multi-decade I guess Trend among uh our preeminent news outlets in this nation to Target their Firepower at like random relatively powerless individuals versus institutions that are truly powerful
‘Nobody knows when it’s going to happen’: Wall Street wakes up to default threat.
How Wall Street investors react to a possible default is crucial because they’re the ones who finance the country’s enormous debt by buying the securities that Treasury sells to fund the government. If they shy away from the market, interest rates could skyrocket, squeezing the government, businesses and consumers.
The surprising science of climate protests
So what impact do climate rallies and disruptive protests really have on climate action – and are the more disruptive tactics actually working?
Editors quit top neuroscience journal to protest against open-access charges
The 42 academics who made up the editorial teams at NeuroImage and its companion journal NeuroImage: Reports announced their resignations on 17 April. The journals are open access and require authors to pay a fee for publishing services. The APC for NeuroImage is US$3,450; NeuroImage: Reports charges $900, which will double to $1,800 from 31 May. Elsevier, based in Amsterdam, says that the APCs cover the costs associated with publishing an article in an open-access journal, including editorial and peer-review services, copyediting, typesetting, archiving, indexing, marketing and administrative costs. Andrew Davis, Elsevier’s vice-president of corporate communications, says that NeuroImage’s fee is less than that of the nearest comparable journal in its field, and that the publisher’s APCs are “set in line with our policy [of] providing above average quality for below average price”.
Google unveils new Bard AI capabilities for coding
The company has brought capabilities such as “code generation, debugging and code explanation” to Bard. Google spreadsheet formulas have also joined its repertoire, according to Google.