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Ernest hemingway wrote, the world breaks everyone, and after many are strong at the broken places. shirley raines is strong at her broken places. in 1990, she left her young son demetrius in the care of her grandmother. he found a bottle of prescription drugs, swallowed them, and a few days later, he died just shy of his third birthday. soon after, shirley lost her grandmother and demetrius father to cancer. she was broken, on the brink of homelessness and thought about ending her life. then in 2017, she was asked to lend a hand at skid row. the moment that shirley stepped on that block, she found purpose for her pain. shirley started beauty 2 the streetz to provide food, clothes, sanitation products, hair, and makeup services, and ....
whoo! yes. you know, we all have a granny or a pop-pop, or a bubbe, or a mama, papa. you know, we got these names. they re the best at sending us soulful birthday cards, coming to graduations or cheering us on at our big school musicals. but if you ask that same grandparent to venmo you some birthday cash or video chat with the kids after school, they re going to look at the thing. they freeze up. what you want me to do with this, son? fearful of the unknown. but jordan mitler, he won t have it. no, no, no. he loves his grandparents and all of ours. five years ago, he started mitler senior technology to ....
But we re also going to be honoring two young people who show us that age is never a factor when it comes to making the world a better place. we call them young wonders. our first young wonder is your knight in shining armor, especially if you ve ever attempted a video chat with your parents or your grandparents and you spend the entire time looking at their ear or the ceiling. yeah. everyone, all of us. here to introduce us to his work is a champion for son of a saint, a mentoring program for fatherless boys in new orleans, the academy award winning and multiple grammy nominated artist, most recently for the album we are. here is john battiste. maus plaus. hello. ....
In 1990, she left her young son demetrius in the care of her grandmother. he found a bottle of prescription drugs, swallowed them, and a few days later he died just shy of his third birthday. soon after, shirley lost her grandmother and demetrius s father to cancer. she was broken, on the brink of homelessness, and thought about ending her life. then in 2017, she was asked to lend a hand at skid row. the moment that shirley stepped on that block, she found purpose for her pain. shirley started beauty 2 the streetz to provide food, clothes, sanitation products, hair, and makeup services and every saturday she goes to where most of us fear to tread. she gives people a hug, a hair cut, and maybe even a glorious red dye job. ....
i love her so much. tonight, not only are we celebrating our top ten heroes, but we ll also be honoring two young people who show us that age is never a factor when it comes to making the world a better place. we call them young wonders. our first young wonder is your knight in shining armor, especially if you re ever attempted a video chat with your parents or your grandparents and you spend the entire time looking at their ear or the ceiling. yeah, everyone, all of us. here to introduce us to his work is a champion for son of a saint, a mentoring program for fatherless boys in new orleans. the academy award-winning and multiple grammy-nominated artist, most recently for the album we are, here s sean battiste. ....