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Respect the Elders or Family First? A 102-Year-Old Woman Is Being Evicted From Her Home of Nearly 30 Years
Thelma Smith, who is 102 years old, is being evicted from the home in Ladera Heights, Calif., where she has lived for almost 30 years, to make room for the landlord’s daughter. According to the Los Angeles Times, Smith, who used to be an executive secretary for the nonprofit Sugar Ray Robinson Youth Foundation, was…
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Watch: Washington Wizards’ Wizdom Dance Squad Milly Rocks, Twerks and Tootsie Rolls, and They're All Older Than 50
Who said Auntie can’t have some fun too? While most visions of NBA dance squads brings to mind young 20-somethings, a recent halftime show for the Washington Wizards showed that age ain’t nothing but a number. These wise elders know that one of the keys to life is found in living in fullest joy. Sponsored…
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Suspect Who Brutally Assaulted 78-Year-Old Homeless Woman on Subway Arrested, Charged
For the past few days, social media has been consumed with outrage at a clip circulating online in which an elderly woman is brutally assaulted on a subway. But thankfully, because God is rather averse to ugly, the coward in question has been apprehended and charged with second and third-degree assault and harassment. Which means…
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Report: 2 NYC Teen Girls Detained After Allegedly Beating Woman, 78
Two New York City teenage girls were detained Friday, a day after, police say, they attacked a 78-year-old woman on a Brooklyn subway platform after the woman asked one of the teens to move her feet so that she could sit down. Police released screenshots of both teens to the media after the attack. The…