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Social media star Shirley Raines dies after years helping homeless in LA
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Guardian Middle East
Shirley Raines, a social media creator and non-profit founder who dedicated her life to caring for people experiencing homelessness, has died, her organization Beauty 2 The Streetz said Wednesday.
Raines’s life made an “immeasurable impact”, Beauty 2 The Streetz wrote on social media.
In 2025, Raines was named the NAACP Image award winner for outstanding social media personality.
Other social media creators lauded her work and shared their own grief online Wednesday.
Shirley was truly the best of us, love incarnate,” wrote Alexis Nikole Nelson, a foraging educator and social media creator known as “blackforager”.