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Racism in Healthcare: What It’s Like Giving Birth as a Black Woman
Reader's DigestNEVER Use These Products on Your BabyYour baby has very sensitive skin, and the wrong products could irritate your little one. As protests against systemic racism continue across the...
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This 11-Year-Old Mows Lawns to Raise Money for Social Justice
Many children and teens mow lawns in the summer to put a little spending money in their pocket. But for one 11-year-old boy from Missouri, his summer lawn mowing business has turned into something much...
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I Broke Up with My Best Friend Because We Couldn’t Agree on Black Lives Matter
“Sweet” is one of the first words people often use to describe Nancy. Indeed, her kindness was one of the first things that drew me to her when we first met in middle school. As we grew up, she...
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21 Extraordinary Stories of Generosity That Will Stay with You
Blossoming kindness “My mother just called me. She had ordered some flowers from a small local store, to be delivered and dropped on the porch. When they brought the flowers, they said, ‘Hang on, we...
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When 20 Miners Became Stranded in an Elevator Shaft, One Man Transported Them...
Cradling his hard hat and bag of sandwiches, Mario Cockrell sprinted for the elevator and shoved his way among the miners jammed inside. Many of them grumbled at him: “Late again!” The doors slammed...
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10 People Who Literally Came Back to Life
Second chances It’s easy to shrug off those miraculous stories about people who were effectively dead and then returned to life. But sometimes, this really does happen, and it’s not a hoax but is in...
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Here’s How I Survived a Shark Attack
Let’s face it: Shark attacks are riveting. Plenty of people plan their lives around Shark Week—and even screenings of Sharknado. Thankfully, your actual odds of ever being attacked by a shark are a...
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13 Most Famous Sister Rivalries in History
Feuding sisters Families fight–that’s just what they do. Usually, when a family has a rift within it, it’s kept within the home and dealt with internally. That is, of course, only when the family isn’t...
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I’m an International Student at Dickinson College—Now I’m Anxious About My...
In early July, the Trump administration barred all international college students from living in the United States if their classes were being held online only as a response to the pandemic. That rule...
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How I Visited 20 Countries in One Year for $250 a Week
Jeremy Helligar in Kiev, Ukraine. People often ask me how I did it. After I left New York City in 2006 to move to Buenos Aires, I spent the next 13 years living abroad and traveling on multiple...
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How My COVID-19 Hallucinations May Have Saved My Life
Marilyn Schneider, 57, an executive secretary of 22 years for the Cleveland Clinic Fairview Hospital, contracted COVID-19 in late March and was admitted to the hospital. Before and during her hospital...
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I’m the Only Black Person in My Office, Here’s What I Wish My Coworkers Knew
I recall early on in my writing career when I was a copywriter for a small, family-owned marketing firm. I was the only Black person on the team. The owner, who was in the process of passing the role...
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This Tattoo Artist Helps People with Scars Love Their Body Again
Eric Catalano fills in the blanks left empty by surgery or accidents. Mark Bertram, 46, lost the tips of two fingers at work in 2018 when his hand became trapped in a fan belt. “It’s life-changing but...
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A 14-Year-Old Boy Helped Save Another Boy’s Life After Meeting Him Through a...
Gamer Reilly Howard and his mother, Sheila Reilly, prevented a friend’s suicide. We think of kids playing video games as being in a sort of solitary confinement, sequestered in their darkened bedrooms....
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How I Escaped from Cuba in 1969 in the Wheel Well of a Jet
The jet engines of the Iberia Airlines DC-8 thundered in an earsplitting crescendo as the big plane taxied toward where we huddled in the tall grass just off the end of the runway at Havana’s José...
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The Heartwarming Story of a Five-Year-Old Girl Who Asked Her Neighbors to Be...
It was just the three of us—my parents and me. My dad is a truck driver, and when I was little, he was gone most of the time, delivering barbed wire and other livestock supplies around the Midwest. So...
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What It’s Really Like to Protest in a Small Town
It’s Saturday morning at 10 a.m. I’m driving south, away from the small town where I live and toward another small town 16 minutes away where fans of the Confederacy have been gathering every weekend...
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How This Quadriplegic Man Learned How to Move His Limbs…with His Mind
When Ian Burkhart broke his neck diving into a wave in 2010, the world as he knew it had ended. But he had no idea that about four years later, he would make history as the first quadriplegic to regain...
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This Is How a Water Bottle Could Save Your Life in a Hurricane
Brace yourselves—Hurricane Laura is here and gearing up to be one of the harshest hurricanes in recent memory. The Category Four storm has already been felt and those affected have faced heavy...
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This Man Broke 15 Bones When He Fell into a Glacier—Here’s How He Survived
John All unzipped his tent, poked his shaggy blond head out into the thin alpine air, and took in the view. The sun sparkled off the freshly fallen snow on the jagged peaks and crags of Mount Himlung....
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After a Horrible Car Crash, Her Odds of Survival Were Just 100 to One
The snow came earlier than they’d expected, but Jeremy Osheim wasn’t worried. He’d driven this route a thousand times, and he knew exactly what to do. Take it easy. Watch the road. You’ll get there...
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I Was Personally Blamed for the Terrorist Attacks on 9/11—Here’s What Happened
September 11, 2001, is a day I’ll never forget, like anyone else who lived through it. It was a devastating day on which so many innocent lives were lost, and it was also the day my life was hijacked...
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I Survived 9/11—These Are the 15 Questions Young People Ask Me the Most
That morning I was 12 years old, sitting in school three blocks away from the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, when the planes hit the twin towers. Our teachers had us all gather in the...
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12 Questions People Still Have About 9/11
How did the towers collapse so quickly? The theory: Engineers designed the Twin Towers to withstand the impact of a commercial jet airplane. Yet, both towers collapsed within two hours of being hit....
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Twists of Fate That Saved These People’s Lives on 9/11
On September 11, 2001, nearly 3,000 people lost their lives—and these seven people could have been among the casualties had it not been for a twist of fate that kept them out of the World Trade...
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13 Powerful Things Surviving a Terrorist Attack Taught Me About Life
On 9/11, I was 12 years old and in middle school three blocks away from the World Trade Center, separated only by a highway and a few sidewalks. I remember when the bomb squad burst through the doors...
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