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As part of a series on hashtag activism in 2014, Audie Cornish speaks with Obiageli Ezekwesili of the Open Society Foundation. Ezekwesili was one of the early promoters of the hashtag #bringbackourgirls, about schoolgirls kidnapped in Nigeria in April.

FGCU resumes on campus instruction today as the fall semester begins. About 15,000 students are enrolled to start classes — about the same as last year. Classes will include a mixture of in-person and virtual models. The university has embarked on an extensive, campus-wide education campaign to “Protect the Nest.” We’re joined by FGCU President, Dr. Mike Martin, to get an overview of reopening plans.

When author, art therapist, and environmental educator Holly Merker learned she had cancer she turned to her lifelong passion for birdwatching as a sort of therapy. Preview the lecture she’s giving at “Ding” Darling Wildlife Society called, “Ornitherapy: How a Deeper Experience with Nature Can Enrich Your Mind, Body, and Soul.”

Hannah Allam is a Washington-based national security correspondent for NPR, focusing on homegrown extremism. Before joining NPR, she was a national correspondent at BuzzFeed News, covering U.S. Muslims and other issues of race, religion and culture. Allam previously reported for McClatchy, spending a decade overseas as bureau chief in Baghdad during the Iraq war and in Cairo during the Arab Spring rebellions. She moved to Washington in 2012 to cover foreign policy, then in 2015 began a yearlong series documenting rising hostility toward Islam in America. Her coverage of Islam in the United States won three national religion reporting awards in 2018 and 2019. Allam was part of McClatchy teams that won an Overseas Press Club award for exposing death squads in Iraq and a Polk Award for reporting on the Syrian conflict. She was a 2009 Nieman fellow at Harvard and currently serves on the board of the International Women's Media Foundation.

Hodder Education, the publisher of the textbook, said it was removing the book from sale and would conduct a review of the content.

Executive orders from President Trump have agencies across the government scrubbing websites of photos and references to transgender people, women and people of color.

Dunbar High School in Fort Myers is an International Baccalaureate school, meaning its IB Diploma Program is designed to meet the highest standard…

“The best advice anyone ever gave me was to not be afraid to speak up. To speak truth to power.”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18rhQLuGQ94In 1952, Ellie…

We learn about the StarAbility Foundation, which works to transform the lives of people with disabilities through social, vocational and educational connections to the community, while strengthening awareness and respect for individual abilities.

However, James A. Wolfe has not been charged with mishandling or disclosing classified information related to his decades of work with the intelligence committee.