Her name is Amelia Earhart. She’s a pilot.
She’s alive.
Not the one who disappeared in 1937. This isn’t some weird “Amelia sighting” or something. I’m talking about a 30-year-old woman with the same name who also has dreams to fly around the world. (more…)
Halfway around the world today, a 14-year-old girl was shot. Not because she was hanging with the wrong crowd. Not because she did drugs or anything like that. It was because she dared to stand up for something, because she dared to say education is important, even for women.
She was shot by the Taliban. Once in the head, once in the neck.
A 14-year-old girl.
Her name is Malala Yousufzai and she is Pakistani. She’s in stable condition, but the Taliban warned that “if she survives this time, she won’t next time.”
A 14-year-old girl. (more…)