Good News Headlines 9/1/2020
Courtesy of Chef El-Amin
This Nonprofit Is Helping Hundreds Of NYC Restaurants Adjust During The Pandemic
by Simone Scully, Upworthy
Hot Bread Kitchen, a New York City-based nonprofit and incubator that has assisted more than 275 local businesses in the food industry, knew they needed to support their affiliated businesses in a new light to navigate the financial complexities of shifting business models and applying for loans… Read More
Woman Who Ate Only Chips And Pasta For 20 Years Finally Cured By Hypnotherapy
by James Rodger, MSN
Jenny Edgar, 32, would gag if she tried anything other than her bland diet of dry cereal, cheese and biscuits and her everyday dinner of pasta or chips… Read More
A Secret Hidden In Centuries-Old Mud Reveals A New Way To Save Polluted Rivers
by Paul Voosen, Science
It called into question expensive efforts to restore rivers by using heavy equipment to resculpt them into what practitioners believed had been their natural shapes… Read More
Teens Transform Liquor Store Into A Needed Food Market, Choosing The Best Way To Serve Chicago
by Judy Cole, Good News Network
In the wake of turbulent racial protests in America’s Midwest, a group of teenagers in Chicago’s Austin neighborhood were looking for a way to uplift their marginalized West Side community—and they found it… Read More
Man Returns From Safari And Finds New Purpose By Sending Thousands Of Books To Rural Kenyan Schools
from WJCL22 ABC
Inspired from his return, Austin started “Libraries for Kids International”, a Lowcountry nonprofit now collecting and donating books and other educational resources to rural schools in Africa… Read More
NASA Astronaut Jeanette Epps To Become 1st Black Woman To Join International Space Station Crew
from Good Black News
The African-American aerospace engineer and astronaut will join the space administration’s first operational crewed flight for Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft, in a mission to the ISS… Read More
Unemployed Line Cooks Are Now Gardening, Thanks To Kitchen Farming Project
by Katherine Martinko, Treehugger
The chef-owner of acclaimed restaurant Blue Hill at Stone Barns realized that if his staff couldn’t keep busy handling ingredients and preparing meals for guests, because of the coronavirus pandemic, they could at least spend their days learning how to grow food… Read More
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