Wasfia Nazreen combined her love for mountain climbing and her passion for helping women into one symbolic effort: summiting the highest peak on each of the seven continents.
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In 2015, Wasfia Nazreen, a 2016 National Geographic emerging explorer, became the first Bangladeshi to summit the highest peak on each of the seven continents, a mountaineering feat known as climbing the seven summits. As a girl Nazreen struggled with her society’s expectations of how a woman should act and behave, which drove her as a young woman to enter the nonprofit world and work to empower women. Eventually Nazreen conceived of the idea to combine her passion for mountain climbing and her passion for helping women into one mission— summiting the seven summits, symbolic of the everyday struggles Bangladeshi women face in society. Nazreen takes the stage to share the challenges she has faced as a woman in Bangladesh, her passion for mountain climbing, and her efforts to empower women in Bangladesh and around the world.

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Is this Nat Turner’s skull? The legacy of Nat Turner continues to be rewritten. An enslaved African-American preacher, he led a small army of slaves to kill 55 white Virginians beginning on August 21, 1831. The rebellion was quickly suppressed, and Turner went into hiding. He was captured just over two months later, tried, and sentenced to death. It’s rumored that, in an attempt to crush his legacy, his body was decapitated and pieces of his tanned skin were given out as souvenirs. For the past decade, what’s believed to be Turner’s skull has been in the possession of Richard Hatcher, former mayor of Gary, Indiana. Recently, he turned it over to Turner’s fourth-generation descendants, who have enlisted forensic experts for testing.
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