This South Side Chicagoan Became CNN’s 2025 Hero Of The Year By Growing Jobs Through Gardening

Through his nonprofit Southside Blooms, Quilen Blackwell is turning empty land into flower farms and giving young people a ...

And the 2025 CNN Hero of the Year is...

Co-hosts Anderson Cooper and Laura Coates reveal the 2025 CNN Hero of the Year during CNN Heroes: An All-Star Tribute.
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CNN 5 Good Things

Hey there. We want to honor everyday people who are changing the world. And I'm talking about the 2024 class of CNN Heroes. So on today's special episode of the Five Good Things podcast, we're ...
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Top 5 CNN Heroes of 2024

Her passion for dance and math followed her to MIT, where she was one of only two Black women studying mechanical engineering at the time.
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‘Bring their voices out’: This CNN Hero is using music to help kids process trauma

There are hundreds of thousands of children across the United States who are living in juvenile detention centers or residential treatment facilities. Many of these young people have experienced ...
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Jason Momoa, Amanda Seyfried, other stars to take part in tonight’s CNN Heroes event

It’s an awards show featuring Hollywood’s top entertainers including Jason Momoa, Amanda Seyfried and Sterling K. Brown. But these celebrities are not here to take home a trophy. Tonight, they will be ...
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This CNN Hero paid tribute to her late father by transforming a library into a center for feeding, teaching, and nurturing her community

During Guatemala’s violent, decades-long civil war, an estimated 200,000 people were killed. Among them was Brenda Lemus’s father, Bernardo Lemus Mendoza, a prominent academic and intellectual who ...
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CNN Heroes 2022 Voting Disclosures

The final round of judging will be done by an online viewer vote conducted on www.CNNHeroes.com. Viewers will have the chance to vote in an online poll for the Finalist whose accomplishment, impact ...