"Wall Street" in prison

"You're gonna see people of all different backgrounds looking for hope." 7/3/18 The Inmate Teaching Finance Behind Bars Curtis Carroll is simply known as "Wall Street" by his fellow inmates at San Quentin State Prison because of his winning reputation for picking and trading stocks. Currently serving a 54-to-life sentence, Carroll founded the prison's financial literacy program as a way to better equip and empower inmates. For the past 10 years, he's been teaching the basics of personal finance and how to trade and buy stocks.  The Magic Wheelchairs That Turn Kids Into Superheroes One Halloween, Ryan Weimer's then-3-year-old son wanted to dress up as a pirate. But his son, who has spinal muscular atrophy, is restricted to a wheelchair. So Ryan fashioned a homemade costume that incorporated the wheelchair as a pirate ship, and his son absolutely loved it. From that idea was born Magic Wheelchair—a global non-profit organization that creates custom wheelchair costumes for kids.   This Great Big Story was made possible by Wells Fargo.  The Unlikely History of Fireworks Fireworks are synonymous with Independence Day in the United States, but how did they go from gunpowder to today's 4th of July firecrackers? While explosives date back thousands of years to ancient China, most people don't realize that modern fireworks came out of folklore. View this email in your browser.  Copyright © 2018 Great Big Story, LLC, All rights reserved.You are receiving this message because you subscribed to the Great Big Story newsletter. Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list