She fed extra food from her pantry to needy neighborhood kids. Then things got much bigger.

Meet Cher Coner. She decided one day to help kids in Detroit who were out of school for the summer, which at first sounds great, right? I mean, kids … summer … they go together.

But it also means these kids lacked the meals that school provides when it’s in session. It happens in too many cities across the country every time school is out, and it’s one of those hidden problems that a lot of people are not aware of.

In their neighborhood, they turned it into something that reached much further than anybody had ever imagined.


As she says, “It’s bigger than a lunch program. Much, much bigger.”

Fair warning: you might just get a little teary-eyed. I know I did.

Nostalgia

Crayola has retired just 13 colors in 123 years. The first 8 led to protests.

Wholesome

His trumpet broke halfway through the national anthem. So he grabbed a mic and started singing.

Nature

A man lost track of his late dad’s beagle for 10 years. Then a Florida rescue scanned her microchip.

Culture

In 1990, Marge Simpson ‘wrote’ to Barbara Bush for ‘criticizing her family.’ It got an apology.