Here are this week’s uplifting headlines.
1-5 Uplifting Headlines of the Week
1. Record-High 70% in U.S. support same-sex marriage. – Source
2. Black Lives Matter protesters were overwhelmingly peaceful, research finds. – Source
3. Massachusetts high school senior headed to Harvard donates the $40K scholarship she earned and asks it be given instead to a student attending community college. – Source
4. ‘It’s the right thing to do’: Florida school board votes to rename 6 Confederate-named schools. – Source
5. London rail worker has saved 29 people from taking their own lives. – Source
6-10 Uplifting Headlines of the Week
6. Ex-NBA player Caron Butler works to end solitary confinement in prisons. – Source
7. Single, divorced, or widowed women now allowed to live alone without permission from male guardians in Saudi Arabia. – Source
8. Ghana plants 5 million trees in a single day to combat deforestation. – Source
9. Heroic teens walking along a beach notice smoke coming from a seaside home and acted quickly to save an elderly pensioner from her burning kitchen on the Isle of Wight. – Source
10. Strangers team up to carry an injured rottweiler named Odin down Mount Washington. – Source
11-15 Uplifting Headlines of the Week
11. Israel becomes the first country in the world to ban the sale of fur. – Source
12. Hometown Heroes: Founder of ‘Itty Bitty Kitty Committee’ spends time ensuring kittens aren’t euthanized. – Source
13. Teen who was in foster care raises money to help black girls in the system receive hair products. – Source
14. It’s official: Colorado has its first wild wolf pups since the 1940s. – Source
15. India’s High Court bans LGBT conversion therapy. – Source
