Allie Dowdle, 18, raised $35,000 to pay college expenses after her parents allegedly cut her off for dating a Black person.
People are turning to social funding platforms like GoFundMe to pay tuition. Generous strangers are making education goals possible.
With less than 72 hours left in the year, a few outliers have tried to turn tragedy into comedy by creating a series of GoFundMe campaigns to save actors Betty White, 94, and Morgan Freeman, 79, from the 2016 death curse.
Larry Mitchell created a "Send Me Back To Africa," GoFundMe page on July 7, one day after the police shooting death of Philando Castile and two days after an officer fatally wounded Alton Sterling. In the wake of the shooting, the nation has deepened a widening divide over race relations and policing.
Someone in Minneapolis, Minn. was kind enough to start up a GoFundMe page to "be the Medici Family" for Kanye West.
The MTA bus service and most subway lines were restored Sunday morning.
