Shirley Raines, Known for Bringing Meals to Homeless People on Skid Row, Dies at 58

Shirley Raines, Known for Bringing Meals to Homeless People on Skid Row, Dies at 58
This photo provided by Melissa Acedera shows Shirley Raines washing a person's hair in Skid Row, 2018, in Los Angeles. Melissa Acedera via AP
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Shirley Raines, a social media creator and nonprofit founder who dedicated her life to caring for people experiencing homelessness, has died, her organization Beauty 2 The Streetz said Wednesday. She was 58.

Raines was known as “Ms. Shirley,” to her more than 5 million TikTok followers and to the people who regularly lined up for the food, beauty treatments and hygiene supplies she brought to Los Angeles’ Skid Row and other homeless communities in California and Nevada.