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Today's featured article Mary Jane Richardson Jones (1819–1909) was an American abolitionist, philanthropist, and suffragist. Born in Tennessee to free black parents, Jones moved with her family to Illinois during her teenage years. Along with her husband, John, she was a leading African-American figure in the early history of Chicago. The Jones household was a stop on the Underground Railroad and a center of abolitionist activity. The Joneses helped hundreds of fugitives fleeing slavery. After her husband's death in 1879, Jones continued to support African-American civil rights and advancement in Chicago, and became a suffragist. She was active in the women's club movement and mentored a new generation of younger black leaders, such as Fannie Barrier Williams, Ida B. Wells, and Daniel Hale Williams. She also made extensive philanthropic contributions. Jones died at age 89 and was buried under a tombstone which reads "Grandma Jonesie". A Chicago park was named in her honor in 2005. (Full article...) Recently featured: KCPQ Western Australian emergency of March 1944 Great Gold Robbery  Today's featured media Ethel Smyth (1858–1944) was an English composer and a member of the women's suffrage movement. Her compositions include songs, works for piano, chamber music, orchestral works, choral works and operas. Smyth's extensive body of work includes the Concerto for Violin, Horn and Orchestra, and the Mass in D. Her opera The Wreckers is considered by some critics to be the "most important English opera composed during the period between Purcell and Britten". This photograph of Smyth was taken in 1922. Photograph credit: unknown; restored by Adam Cuerden Recently featured: InSight – De Viron Castle – Viviparus georgianus Archive – More featured media...  Did you know Axel Downard-Wilke ... that Axel Downard-Wilke (pictured) led a campaign in 2020 to have macrons used in Māori place names in Wikipedia articles? ... that although the icosian game was advertised as a "highly amusing game for the drawing room", it was too easy to play and not a commercial success? ... that prior to embarking on a music career during the COVID-19 pandemic, the DJ Sim0ne placed fifth on the eleventh series of Britain's Next Top Model in 2017? ... that the architects of the Eldridge Street Synagogue were Catholics who had never designed a synagogue before? ... that Theo Benedet is the first offensive lineman to be named the best Canadian university football lineman two years in a row? ... that the historic mansion Bulgur Palas in Istanbul hosted a birdhouse for hundreds of domestic canaries in one room during its ownership by the Ottoman Bank? ... that actress Nellie McCoy suffered a mental breakdown after her theatre performance was criticized, leading to her being committed to a sanatorium? ... that women were 33 percent more likely than men to search for clown pornography in 2016? ... that the chief editor of the United States' Telegraph allegedly gouged a rival reporter's eyes inside a Senate office?

In the news Ebrahim Raisi The European Union passes the Artificial Intelligence Act, aiming to establish a regulatory and legal framework for AI. A helicopter crash near Varzaqan, Iran, kills eight people, including President Ebrahim Raisi (pictured) and Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian. In boxing, Oleksandr Usyk defeats Tyson Fury to become the first undisputed heavyweight champion in twenty-four years. Protests over voting rights changes break out in the French territory of New Caledonia. Ongoing: Israel–Hamas war timeline Russian invasion of Ukraine timeline War in Sudan timeline Recent deaths: Ivan Boesky Narayanan Vaghul David Wilkie Fernando Martínez Castellano John Koerner Pat Buckley  This day in history May 24: Aldersgate Day (Methodism) Eric XIV of Sweden, portrait by Domenicus Verwilt. 1567 – The mentally ill King Eric XIV of Sweden (pictured) and his guards murdered five incarcerated nobles, including some members of the influential Sture family. 1689 – The Act of Toleration became law, granting freedom of worship to English nonconformists under certain circumstances, but deliberately excluding Catholics. 1798 - The Irish Rebellion of 1798 began, with battles beginning in County Kildare and fighting later spreading across the country. 1963 – United States Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy met with African American author James Baldwin in an unsuccessful attempt to improve race relations. 2014 – A gunman involved in Islamic extremism opened fire at the Jewish Museum of Belgium in Brussels, killing four people. Robert Hues (d. 1632) Philip Pearlstein (b. 1924) Magnus Manske (b. 1974) Stormé DeLarverie (d. 2014) More anniversaries: May 23 May 24 May 25

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