India, Jan. 30 -- Shirley Raines, the beloved social media creator and founder of the non-profit Beauty 2 The Streetz, has died, her organization announced. Known to millions as "Ms. Shirley," she was 58.

Raines turned her deep personal grief into a worldwide mission of compassion, using TikTok to provide food, hygiene, and dignity to unhoused communities in Los Angeles' Skid Row and beyond. Millions of followers, fellow campaigners, and the people she helped have expressed sorrow over her untimely death.

Shirley Raines was a 58-year-old mother of six from Los Angeles who became an unlikely but monumental social media star and humanitarian. To over 5 million TikTok followers and the unhoused individuals she served, she was simply "Ms. S...