[ad_1] Police are investigating the second death of a person experiencing homelessness in Kansas City this weekend. Officers responded to a vacant building near 53rd St. and Prospect Ave. Sunday evening where a deceased person was found. Alina Heart volunteers with various groups that help people experiencing homelessness. She saidContinue Reading
[ad_1] David N. Dinkins, a barber’s son who became New York City’s first Black mayor on the wings of racial harmony but who was turned out by voters after one term over his handling of racial violence in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, died on Monday night at his home on theContinue Reading
[ad_1] A homeless person with links to Kingston took his own life in Chiswick on Thursday (November 19), just days after a homeless man died on the streets of the town itself. The man was known to authorities and homelessness groups in the borough who made contact with him earlierContinue Reading
[ad_1] Homeless advocates are worried what happened to Dave will happen again, and in more places. PORTLAND, Ore. — It’s impossible to miss the growing number of people living on the streets in frigid temperatures. On Tuesday, one of those people was found dead in Bend when the temperature droppedContinue Reading
[ad_1] ATLANTA (AP) — A determined advocate for homeless people and death row inmates in Georgia has died after a long battle with cancer. Murphy Davis was 72. Her death Thursday was announced by her family. Davis made it her life’s work to fight against the death penalty after theContinue Reading