Utterly interesting

In 1900, the Chicago Tribune counted down the 20 household items most often used by women as weapons. Broom handles, hat pins, rolling pins, even soup tureens — a quirky list that reveals much about self-defence history.

In 1959, John Howard Griffin darkened his skin to live as a Black man in the segregated South. His book Black Like Me shocked America and remains a landmark in civil rights history.

The murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till in Mississippi shocked America in 1955. His story became a catalyst for the Civil Rights Movement, exposing the brutal realities of the Jim Crow South.