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A 13-year-old had the chance to get anything he wanted from Make-A-Wish. He chose to give back. Adeola “Abraham” Olagbegi, a teenager from Jackson, Mississippi, opted to feed homeless people in his hometown for a year, rather than be treated himself following his diagnosis with life-threatening blood disorder aplastic anemia. Olagbegi was diagnosed in June of 2020 […]
The city of Toronto is facing criticism for what many are calling an excessive use of police force at the clearing of a homeless encampment in a public park on Tuesday. Police barricades and bulldozers were in full effect at a city-enforced eviction of one of Toronto’s larger tent encampments in Trinity Bellwoods Park. While […]
Bobby Shmurda knows how to treat his community. On Sunday, in celebration of Father’s Day, the New York rapper held his “Father’s Day Give Back Brunch,” a Brooklyn event for 200 underprivileged families, offering them both meals and haircuts. The event was mostly set up for dads and their kids, as Bobby and his team treated those at The Win […]
Variety has learned that Jaden Smith is opening a restaurant that will give free meals to homeless people. The establishment is named after Jaden’s I Love You food truck initiative, which he launched nearly two years ago, on his 21st birthday. The musician, actor, and philanthropist said his goal was to provide “healthy, vegan food for free” to those in […]
A 13-year-old girl from California killed two men while attempting to evade police with the car she allegedly stole from her mother, FOX 5 San Diego reports. An Escondido Police officer stopped the teenager’s vehicle at around 11:19 p.m. Friday night for a traffic violation. “What the officer didn’t know at the time, is that the […]
A 12-year-old California girl has raised almost $50,000 for a homeless man who returned her grandmother’s lost wallet. According to People, 57-year-old Sean Currey was looking for food in a dumpster behind a coffee shop in San Rafael, California when he came upon the wallet. While he’s been homeless throughout the years, he only briefly thought […]
An ex-Honolulu police officer who made a homeless man lick a public urinal has been sentenced to four years in prison for the federal civil rights crime. John Rabago pleaded guilty in December to the incident, which happened in January 2018, Vice reports. During Rabago’s sentencing on Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Leslie Kobayashi told the 44-year-old, “You […]
A man by the name of Joseph T. was charged with felony assault for an altercation he had with an officer in New York City, The City reports. Newly released body camera footage shows the officer attacking the man and punching him. Joseph T. is a 30-year-old homeless man. On May 25, he was riding the subway towards Brooklyn […]
Following up on a similar act of generosity that we’ll get to in a second, TMZ reports that Jeopardy! mainstay and GOAT gameshow host Alex Trebek has donated $500,000 to a homeless shelter charity looking to get a new facility up and running in Southern California’s San Fernando Valley by next year. Trebek’s sizable contribution to the […]
Denzel Washington was spotted helping a homeless man in West Hollywood on Thursday. According to a report from TMZ on the inarguably kind move of compassion, Washington was driving in West Hollywood on Thursday afternoon when he passed the man in question in the street and “in some peril with oncoming traffic.” Per the report, […]
