Junior Seau wasn't able to be at his own Hall of Fame induction ceremony after he took his own life in 2012, but his daughter carried her father's fighting spirit throughout her speech. "He is the...
A man just restored all faith in humanity by showing a true act of kindness for this daughter of a woman with cancer. A woman from Belfast, Northern Ireland, named Cara Duggan wanted to purchase her...
A Lowe's in Chapel Hill, North Carolina (courtesy Wikimedia Commons)
Last week, a delivery driver for a Lowe's store in Danville, Virginia, was the victim of a disgraceful act of racism. He was delivering an item when the store manager told him to turn around...
injured
This week's news has been dominated by terrible news like the senseless death of Cecil the Lion, and of course Donald Trump. But sometimes we seem to miss those small stories that remind us of...
transplant surgery
8 year old Zion Harvey, from the Baltimore suburb of Owings Mills, Maryland contracted sepsis as a toddler resulting in multiple organ failure. His grave condition brought about the tragic life saving decision to amputate...
South Carolina Public Safety Director Leroy Smith helping a white supremacist inside the State House (courtesy Rob Godfrey's Twitter)
You may recall that at a white supremacist rally last week protesting the removal of the Confederate battle flag from the South Carolina State House grounds, a black state trooper happened to see one of...
cancer
These stories really hit home for me, turning me into an emotional puddle on the floor. On December 22, 2010, I was 12 weeks pregnant, and my 24 year old husband was diagnosed with acute...
A Time Warner Cable van (courtesy Carbon Arc's Flickr)
For much of 2013 and 2014, a woman in Irving, Texas was bombarded with robocalls from Time Warner Cable about a past-due bill. There was just one problem--Time Warner Cable was calling the wrong number,...
The "No Gays Allowed" sign on the door of Amyx Hardware until Tuesday (courtesy WBIR-TV)
Yesterday, I told you that Jeff Amyx, owner of Amyx Hardware & Roofing Supplies in Washburn, Tennessee; chose a really crass way to protest the Supreme Court making marriage equality the law of the land....
It's amazing when a child stands up to hate in a way that grown adults can't do themselves. A photographer at Comfest in Columbus, Ohio captured a first grader named Zea in a face off with...
inspiring people
  North Carolina activist Bree Newsome made history on June 27, 2015 when she ripped down the Confederate flag which had flown in front of the? South Carolina State House in the capital city of Columbia...
Believe it or not, today's historic Supreme Court declaration that committed same-sex couples have the right to legally marry was actually the second major victory for gay rights in 48 hours. Yesterday, a Hudson County,...
The South Carolina State House (courtesy Wikimedia Commons)
It may have taken the racially motivated and cold-blooded murder of nine people to do it, but we may be one step closer to seeing the removal of the Confederate battle flag from the grounds...
Debbie Dills, the woman who spotted Dylann Roof (courtesy WBTV)
When the surveillance pictures of Dylann Roof, the man suspected of being the gunman in a racially-motivated bloodbath in a Charleston church, were first released on Thursday morning, I immediately figured he'd be spotted somewhere...
At Beau Biden's funeral, President Obama gave an emotional and touching eulogy to honor the great life of Vice President Joe Biden's son who passed away last week of brain cancer. He was only 46...
Keith Ablow at a 2013 Boston Tea Party gathering (from Mark Nassal's Flickr)
After devoting virtually no time at all to the Josh Duggar scandal, Fox News Channel seems to have taken on the role of the PR agency for America's famous babymakers. Megyn Kelly, for instance, echoed...
truth
When I watched this video, I could do nothing but shake my head. Not just in disgust for our prison system, but also for myself. I've been that guy who ignored homeless people, too busy to...
coffee
A young man was carried through the tunnel and across the Jardine Stadium football field one last time. Malik Sparkman was a linebacker for the Coffee County Trojans in South Georgia before he was diagnosed with...
Charles C. Johnson at a PUSH meeting in 2013 (from Johnson's Facebook)
Earlier today, I mentioned that Charles C. Johnson, a right-wing troll and provocateur who thinks he's a real journalist, got suspended from Twitter for asking for help in "taking out" Black Lives Matter activist Deray...
Fox News, the official mouthpiece of the Republican Party (or is the other way around?) loves to extol what it calls "Christian American values" and how important those are to the future of the nation....