A Look Back on 2020—Here are 15 Good News Stories to Restore Your Faith in Humanity

She had been rejected by 20 families and when he held her in his arms, he says he knew she was his daughter, “immediately.”

9. This Reddit user who wanted to encourage his mom and got SO much more!  

 

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Reddit user, Gaddafo, posted a photo of his mom holding her 2nd painting. Discouraged, she thought no one would like it. Instead, the internet responded with an epic picture in picture painting of his mom, and the thread is incredible.

10. This mom who gave birth while fighting coronavirus in a medically-induced coma

 

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Angela Primachenko was 33-weeks pregnant with her second child when she was first diagnosed with COVID-19 in late March.

The virus was so aggressive that the young mom from Vancouver, Washington was hooked up to a ventilator and placed in a medically induced coma. It was during that time when doctors decided to induce labor as a way to give both mom and baby a better chance at life.

After 17 days in the ICU and nearly a month after giving birth to her daughter, Angela finally got to meet her baby.

11. Band-Aid finally released a line of bandages for various skin tones

 

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12. This white cop who stood in solidarity with protesters in Flint, Michigan

 

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“The only reason we’re here is to make sure that you got a voice.” Sheriff Chris Swanson told protesters as he laid down his helmet and baton to support black lives in his community of Flint, Michigan.

13. This couple who has been married 67 years and was reunited after being separated for 5 weeks due to coronavirus

 

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Joyce and Don, who have been married nearly 70 years, were finally reunited after COVID-19 forced them to separate from each other for 5 weeks.

14. Mister Rogers’ powerful stance against racism is being remembered for all the right reasons.

 

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In 1969, around the first anniversary of Martin Luther King’s death, Mr. Rogers asked Officer Clemmons to join him and soak their feet together in a pool of water on a hot day.⁣ ⁣ Their feet stood side by side in a plastic wading pool and both men sat silently, contemplating without a word. Then Mr. Rogers proceeded to help Officer Clemmons dry his feet. Just a few years before, many public pools were off limits to black Americans.⁣ ⁣ François Clemmons talks about when he started to see Mr. Rogers as a father figure: “On April 4, after Dr. King was assassinated in 1968. That was a tremendous blow to me personally and politically and emotionally. My world was absolutely shattered. And I was living in what they call Schenley Heights in Pittsburgh, a black bougie neighborhood…When April 4 came and Dr. King was assassinated, they were burning down the Hill District [a historically black neighborhood in Pittsburgh], which was six, seven blocks from [me]. I had only been there eight or nine months, and I was terrified of what was going to happen.⁣ ⁣ I remember Fred Rogers called me and said, ‘Franc, what are you doing? How are you doing?’ He knew where I lived. And at one point he said, ‘We’re concerned about your safety. We don’t like that you’re over there. I’m coming to get you’…I never had someone express that kind of deep sense of protection for me…and that experience drew Fred and me really, really close. I thought, Well, this is the real thing right here.”⁣ ⁣ 25 years later, when Officer Clemmons retired, his last scene on the show revisited the same plastic wading pool. Officer Clemmons asked Mr. Rogers what he had been thinking about during their moment of silence a quarter century before. Mr. Rogers told him he was thinking of the many ways people say “I love you.”⁣ ⁣ Source: Officer Clemmons: A Memoir (2020) by François Clemmons

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15. This mother and daughter graduated from medical school together and got placed at the same hospital for residency.

 

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Congratulations to Dr.’s Cynthia and Jasmine Kudji!