homelessness
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Will Smith Will Read You a Bedtime Story For a Very Good Cause
If you’ve ever longed to have Will Smith read you Jack and the Beanstalk or Where the Wild Things Are before bed, your dreams are one step closer to reality, as the former Fresh Prince of Bel-Air will be reading bedtime stories later this year for a very good cause. According to the Seattle Times,…
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Homeless Crisis in Los Angeles Highlights the Fall of the Black Middle Class
Blacks make up just 9 percent of Los Angeles County’s population overall, but comprise 40 percent of the area’s homeless, pushed to the margins by decades of redlining, layoffs, mass incarceration and gentrification. Among the homeless population, two-thirds live outside, some in whole tent communities filled with close-knit bands of men and women, according to…
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Black Man Walked With Rope by Mounted Police Has Mental Illness, According to Family: ‘They Don’t Care to Know the Whole Story’
Family members of Donald Neely, the 43-year-old homeless man who was handcuffed and led by a rope by two white Galveston, Texas, officers on horseback last weekend, said he has struggled with mental illness for years—and that his condition was well documented. Neely—whose arrest went viral after photos of him walking down the street, flanked…
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Jaden Smith Really Is an Icon Living: Debuts Free Vegan Food Truck for the Homeless in Los Angeles
While Jaden Smith has enjoyed plenty of box office and Billboard success, it’s his benevolence and giving heart that his fans truly adore. According to the Hollywood Reporter, on Monday, the “Icon” rapper unveiled I Love You Restaurant, a vegan food truck that will provide free meals to the homeless of downtown Los Angeles. The…
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Trump Tells Fox News That Homelessness Started ‘Two Years Ago’ and He’s Right
When you inherit millions in property and money from your father and spend your entire life sheltered from the realities of the real world, you are bound to say stupid shit. If you’re President Trump, the only Boy Scout not to get a badge because he claimed his bone spurs left him unable to tie…
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Homeless Father Turns Tragedy Into Triumph After Being Publicly Shamed on Facebook
As if being homeless isn’t stressful enough, imagine waking up from taking a nap inside of the McDonald’s where you work and learning that a picture of you sleeping was uploaded to Facebook. According to WSB-TV, that’s exactly what happened to 21-year-old Simon Childs, who was resting between shifts at the Fayetteville, Ga., restaurant when…
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Rep. Steve King Trots Out Diamond and Silk in Legislative Announcement
Rep. Steve King, the Iowa Republican deemed so racist by his own GOP that party leaders removed him from all the House committees on which he sat, has found a new cause: championing vets and homeless people in the name of two of Donald Trump’s most favorite “blacks,” Diamond and Silk. According to the Washington…
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Calif. Teen Overcomes Life of Abuse, Homelessness to Become an Honor Student
Elexis Webster is a 17-year-old high school junior for whom a GPA above 4.0 is considered the norm. But Elexis acknowledges that from the outside looking in, “many wouldn’t expect me to have such a rough life,” as she wrote in her application to Student Rising Above, a comprehensive year-round program that provides college-readiness support,…