Originally published on EYEWITNESS NEWS LONDON on February 17, 2015. Girls are currently allowed to marry at 16 or 15 with parental consent, but many marry much younger. Malawi has passed a law banning child marriage, raising the minimum age to 18 in a country where half of girls end…
Originally published in the Detroit Free Press on February 7, 2015 By Bill Laitner. Photos by Ryan Garza James Robertson’s marathon commute to work will be slashed by hours, now that the hard-workin’, hard-walkin’ hero finally got a car. Robertson, whose story in Sunday’s Free Press about his 21-mile daily…
Originally published in the Detroit Free Press on February 2, 2015 By Bill Laitner. Photos by Ryan Garza A story about a Detroit man who commutes about 21 miles a day on foot to and from work has spurred reaction from across the nation, including social media fundraisers that have…
Every Week Piccolo gives away from 1,000 to 60,000 books…for FREE! Piccolo Lewis is committed to promoting literacy and getting books to the public. In the last two years, he has donated more than 450,000 books to schools in Los Angeles, Long Beach & Compton, Detroit, Africa, Haiti, Jamaica, the…
