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🇲🇽 Today is Cinco de Mayo! While festivities will take place across the U.S. and in parts of Mexico, one particularly large celebration doubles as a fundraiser for a 50-year-old nonprofit.
👔 The Met Gala, or “fashion’s biggest night out,” is tonight, and notably, it’s the first in history to have all Black men as co-chairs alongside a celebration of Black dandyism through the theme “Superfine: Tailoring Black Style.”
People doing good
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In a final act of kindness, Pope Francis donated his entire personal bank account to prisoners right before he died
As Catholics around the world mourn the death of the late Pope Francis, more details are surfacing about his final days. One thing is more clear than ever: he will be remembered as someone who fought for the rights of prisoners.
The official responsible for managing Francis’ charity and prison pastoral care in Rome said that before his death, the pope donated €200,000 (about $226,400 USD) to a juvenile prison in Rome.
That last bit of his personal wealth specifically went to fund a pasta factory he’d maintained a close connection to throughout his papacy, which employs inmates to work toward reintegration in society and prevent recidivism.
Even better:Throughout his time as pope, he was entitled to a papal salary of some €30,000 a month, but Pope Francis refused to collect it. Instead, he deferred it to various organizations, churches, and groups in need.
An immunotherapy breakthrough could change the way certain cancers are treated.Cancers with certain mutations can put the brakes on our immune system, allowing a mismatch repair-deficient solid tumor to grow, and this new treatment is an antibody that releases those brakes so the immune cells can attack the cancer.
Environment
Photo: via Cankaya Municipality News Center
Thousands of books were destined for the landfill — these Turkish garbage collectors rescued them and built a public library instead
An islandwide network of volunteers is growing native trees to restore what the Maui wildfires destroyed
For the past year and a half, volunteers, local farmers, nurseries, and hotels have come together to nurture thousands of young saplings growing in pots to be replanted in Lahaina, which was devastated by wildfires nearly two years ago.
Since launching months after the fires cleared, the Treecovery Hawaii project has grown 6,200 trees across 25 grow hubs. Around 160 trees have already been planted at homes that have since been rebuilt.
Ensuring that homeowners can focus on returning to their homes, this network of volunteers is caring for the all-native trees to eventually surround them with.
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