A deep dive on one extraordinary person or organization.
Inspirational Profile
A lion named Layish spent four years confined to a traveling circus trailer in France. This spring, rescuers flew him to a sanctuary in South Africa -- and for the first time in his life, he set foot on open ground that wasn't a cage.
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Amy Shinneman has never run a step on her own — Bethlem myopathy, a rare form of muscular dystrophy, makes it impossible. So since 2019, her husband Jamie has pushed her through marathon after marathon in a racing wheelchair. Today, the Noblesville, Indiana couple race the Sydney Marathon
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John Adesoye immigrated to the UK from Nigeria by way of Greece, took a job as a hospital healthcare assistant at 51, and spent the next 13 years working toward something bigger. This July, at 64, he graduated as a registered nurse from the University of the West of England — attending cla
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Five years ago, 9-year-old Jude Kofie found a forgotten keyboard in his family's basement and revealed a self-taught "Mozart level" piano talent. A stranger who read his story spent $15,000 of his own family's inheritance to buy Jude a grand piano — and today, at 14, Jude is a touring musi
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For the first time in more than 30 years, black rhinos are back in Zimbabwe's Matusadona National Park — some of them direct descendants of the very animals rangers airlifted out during the 1980s poaching crisis to save the species.
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A Bavarian volunteer group used to search meadows on foot for fawns hiding from mowers — finding just 10-15 a year. After adding thermal-imaging drones, they now save 300-350 fawns every single year.
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Khari Arnold started taking his infant daughter to their local Atlanta library on a whim — and it grew into "Library Dads," a weekly movement where hundreds of fathers now show up citywide to read with their kids. In under a year it expanded to a second library, with fathers calling it lif
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Andrew Lunetta spent nearly a decade watching people cycle in and out of Syracuse homeless shelters — until he realized housing, not the people in it, was the problem. His nonprofit, A Tiny Home for Good, has since built small, private homes with long-term support for 47 people, including
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A first-grade teacher named Alvin Irby saw one of his students bored in a Bronx barbershop and wished the boy had a book. That single thought became Barbershop Books — a nonprofit that now reaches more than 15,000 children a year through over 260 barbershops, and this year was named the Un