In the summer of 2020, Cartier Carey set up a lemonade stand in Hampton, Virginia. He didn’t want a single dollar for himself.
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For Nearly 30 Years, He Mopped the Floors of an Elementary School. Today, He Is Its Principal
Gabe Sonnier was the janitor at Port Barre Elementary in Louisiana. Then the principal told him: “I’d rather see you grading papers than picking them up.”
Read More »In 1978, a Young Teacher Told His Ninth-Graders to Meet Him for an Eclipse in 2024. 46 Years Later, More Than 100 of Them Showed Up
Earth science teacher Patrick Moriarty made a promise to his students in 1978. On April 8, 2024, his “kids” came back from all over the country to keep it.
Read More »His Government Told Him No, Three Times. So the Quiet Diplomat Wrote Visas by Hand for 18 Hours a Day, and Saved Thousands of Lives
In the summer of 1940, Japanese diplomat Chiune Sugihara ignored his orders and hand-wrote visas for Jewish refugees in Lithuania, even as he was leaving on his train.
Read More »He Landed on Gold Beach at 18. At 93, He Stood in His Town’s High Street Every Day With a Collection Tin, for the Friends Who Never Came Home
D-Day veteran Harry Billinge was one of the first British soldiers ashore on 6 June 1944. Decades later, he collected more than £50,000, coin by coin, so his fallen friends would be remembered.
Read More »The Little Girl Across the Street Was Deaf and Loved to Chat. So Her Whole Neighborhood Went Back to School
Samantha Savitz was born deaf, and her neighbors in Newton, Massachusetts, could not talk to her. So about 40 of them hired a teacher and learned sign language.
Read More »The Judges Expected a Cute Little Joke. Then the Gap-Toothed 6-Year-Old Sang “Over the Rainbow”
In 2007, six-year-old Connie Talbot from near Birmingham walked onto the Britain’s Got Talent stage with no singing lessons at all. What happened next left Simon Cowell speechless.
Read More »Her Puppy Had Been Missing for 27 Hours. Then a Man With a Thermal Drone Found Him in 41 Minutes
When Gina Manfredi’s puppy Shade ran off in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, volunteers searched for more than a day. Then drone pilot Michael Parziale arrived.
Read More »Every Monday, a Barber Set Up on the Sidewalk and Cut Hair for Free. One Homeless Man Kept Showing Up to Help Him Sweep
Denver-area barber Taza “T” Gillespie gave free haircuts to people living on the street. One of them, Nick, now has an apartment and a job, and still comes back for his haircut.
Read More »The Principal Was Told a Homeless Teen Couldn’t Stay in His School. He Took the Boy Home Instead, and It Cost Him His Job
Ohio principal Rob Burnside let a homeless student keep coming to school, then he and his wife took the teen into their home. He lost his job over it, and says he would do it again.
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