The Brighter Side of News

22/01/2024

Beam me up Scotty. Is everything Star Trek predicted going to come true?

With its impressive features and potential to revolutionize the tech industry, the AI PIN has generated significant excitement and interest.

23/05/2022

Awesome event at the Canadian Consulate Residence today. put on an incredible impromptu concert for us all. was in the house.

30/03/2022

Celebrities have put their money where their mouths are, donating money and launching fundraisers using their public platforms.

26/02/2022

According to a survey of 2,000 adults, TV shows from the end of the 20th century are still better than anything on the air today.

04/02/2022

https://www.thebrighterside.news/post/what-are-kosher-phones-and-what-do-new-reforms-in-israel-mean-to-the-industry

Israel’s Ministry of Communications has announced a new plan to reform the country’s market for “kosher” mobile phone services.

19/01/2022

"Let's go, Andrew. Let's go!" Those were the encouraging words from students as their friend made several attempts to score a bucket.

19/10/2021

A 79-year-old U.S Navy veteran has been flooded with donations to replace his broken mobility scooter after a TikTok video went viral.

16/07/2021

Biddy Bridget Mason (1815-1891) was born into slavery and given as a wedding gift to a Mormon couple in Mississippi named Robert and Rebecca Smith. In 1847 at age 32, Biddy Mason was forced to walk from Mississippi to Utah tending cattle behind her master’s 300-wagon caravan.

After four years in Salt Lake City, Smith took the group to a new Mormon settlement in San Bernardino, California in search of gold. Biddy Mason soon discovered that the California State Constitution made slavery illegal, and that her master planned to move them all to Texas to avoid freeing them. With the help of some free blacks she had befriended, she and the other slaves attempted to run away to Los Angeles, but they were intercepted by Smith and brought back. However, when he tried to leave the state with his family and slaves, a local posse prevented his flight. Biddy had Robert Smith brought into court on a writ of habeas corpus. She, her daughters, and the ten other slaves were held in jail for their own safety until the judge heard the case and granted their freedom.

Now free, Mason and her three daughters moved to Los Angeles where they worked and saved enough money to buy a house at 331 Spring Street in downtown Los Angeles. Biddy was employed as a nurse, midwife, and domestic servant. She was one of the first black women to own land in the city of Los Angeles. She had the gumption to use part of her land as a temporary resting place for horses and carriages, and people visiting town paid money in exchange for the space. This can be considered the first "parking lot" in Los Angeles!

Knowing what it meant to be oppressed and friendless, Biddy Mason immediately began a philanthropic career by opening her home to the poor, hungry, and homeless. Through hard work, saving, and investing carefully, she was able to purchase large amounts of real estate including a commercial building, which provided her with enough income to help build schools, hospitals, and churches. Her financial fortunes continued to increase until she accumulated a fortune of almost $300,000. In today's money, that would be $6M. Her most noted accomplishment is the founding of the First AME Church in California.

27/02/2021

Today The Brighter 5 brings you a list of the five most disruptive and promising new technology advancements towards carbon neutrality.

04/12/2020

ABO blood types benefit similarly from plant-based diet, according to research published in the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Diet

11/11/2020

Can you believe it news: Hey Smails... thousand bucks I make this shot! Gives all us duffers hope!

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Hey Smails ... thousand bucks I make this shot! Not quite Roy McAvoy's shot from inside the clubhouse to knock the pelican off it's perch

29/09/2020

Inspiring!

As we approach Yom Kippur and further intensify our practice of reflection, atonement, and personal empowerment, it's important to remember that, as humans, we have the power to choose how we...

23/07/2020

Great story by one of our readers. Feel free to comment and send us other story ideas you may have by commenting here on Facebook!

[July 21, 2020: Brighter Side Reader Submission] With a vehicle possessing as many gadgets as a James Bond car, NASA’s new rover will explore the Mars like nothing before it. The “Mars 2020 Perseverance” mission expects to launch on July 30 and will be ”the most complex and cleanest mechanis...

20/07/2020

John Lewis, a civil rights activist whose bloody beating by Alabama state troopers in 1965 helped galvanize opposition to racial segregation, and who went on to a long and celebrated career in Congress, has died. He was 80. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi confirmed Lewis’s passing late Friday...

01/07/2020

https://www.thebrighterside.news/post/face-mask-construction-materials-matter-for-containing-coughing-sneezing-droplets

June 30, 2020: Phys.org Currently, there are no specific guidelines on the most effective materials and designs for facemasks to minimize the spread of droplets from coughs or sneezes to mitigate the transmission of.... MORE

01/07/2020

https://www.thebrighterside.news/post/wife-s-gesture-out-of-love-leads-to-350-000-lottery-jackpot

June 30, 2020: UPI An Australian woman's thoughtful gesture for her husband earned the couple a lottery jackpot of nearly $350,000 -- but it was weeks before they realized it. The Winthrop couple, ho are in their 50s.... MORE

01/07/2020

From today's The Brighter Side of News.

https://www.thebrighterside.news/post/6-year-old-runs-26-miles-to-raise-money-for-charity-he-wanted-to-do-more

June 29, 2020: Yahoo Life Dozens of farmers lent a helping hand to one of their own, in the hospital with heart complications. “People may have have an hour, hour and a half to run cause they’re all busy. They’ve got.... MORE

03/06/2020

From our June 2 newsletter.

Boy, 9, with cerebral palsy completes marathon on his walker, half a mile at a time.

A 9-year-old boy with cerebral palsy and autism has raised $100,000 for charity after completing a marathon up and down his street using a walker .... https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/01/uk/tobias-weller-marathon-intl-scli-gbr/index.html

03/06/2020

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03/06/2020