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Postal Worker Saves Missing Toddler
I don’t know about y’all but I prefer to end the week with some good news. After a week as exhausting as this one, I think we’re all in need of it. CBS News reports that Thursday morning in Maryland, postal worker Keith Rollins found and rescued a 2-year-old boy who had been missing for…
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This Video of a Georgia Boy Helping an Elderly Woman Up the Stairs Is the Feel-Good News We All Deserve to See
It’s been a long, short week, and it’s high time we got some good news out of the chaos that is the regular news cycle. But never fear, this young Georgia boy’s random act of kindness, which was captured on video, is here to deliver. According to WSB-TV, viewer Riley Duncan captured the video of…
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Philly Teen Who Used to Be Homeless Earns Full Ride to Harvard
Richard “Tre” Jenkins was always a bookworm. It was a trait that used to get him teased, with bullies calling him “Harvard.” Who knew that bullies could speak life into something? As it turns out, Richard is indeed Harvard, or at least Harvard-bound, earning a full scholarship to the prestigious university. But life hasn’t always…
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Too Late for Whom? 89-Year-Old Woman Becomes Oldest Graduate in Liberty University’s Class of 2018
Our elders keep on showing up and showing out, and one 89-year-old mother of 12 did just that over the weekend after becoming the oldest graduate to cross the stage at Liberty University’s commencement in Lynchburg, Va. According to the school’s website, Ella Washington was so focused on raising her children and putting them through…
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#BlackGirlMagic: Illinois 8th-Grader Raises $1,000 to Give Community a ‘Free Wash Day’ at Local Laundromat
Jayera Griffin knows a thing or two about community service. It is, after all, while she was tutoring younger kids at her school when she realized that something just wasn’t quite right. “I would see that their clothes weren’t as clean as they could be,” the eighth-grader at Washington Junior High in Riverdale, Ill., told WGN-TV.…
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Calif. High School Students Band Together to Buy Classmate New Game Console After His Was Stolen Right Before Christmas
Confession: I’m grasping onto every single feel-good Christmas story with everything I have while I can. It’s not over until the new year rings in. That being said, a group of Antioch High School students really showed up and showed out for their classmate this year after his Nintendo 3DS game console was stolen. According…
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Oklahoma Community Surprises Beloved Walmart Greeter With a Car
Yolanda Crawford is a fixture at her local Muskogee, Okla., Walmart, and when she is there, it is hard to miss her or her greetings as she carries out her job, welcoming everyone as family. So when customers found out that Crawford had been trekking to work on foot every day (regardless of weather conditions),…