Looking for beauty, joy, triumph, gumption? Welcome to #Recharge, our look at what's working — and those striving for a better world. Check out these stories 👇🏽 and this image, by Amber Walker, of paddling at the Kenai National #WildlifeRefuge /1 
He had a dream. A US Embassy worker gave him a half-hour. A life was changed.
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"It says that we can. It says...that we can do this." On Friday, the Citadel, a military school that had fought the admission of women, promoted cadet Sarah Zorn, 21, to lead the corps. The commandant said simply: "She’s the best qualified." nytimes.com/2018/05/04/us/… #Recharge /3
Scattered, shattered: What Syrian refugee kids needed was something calming, something to help them rest at night. Welcome to Sleepytime Radio, which broadcasts bedtime stories in French and Arabic for them theguardian.com/world/2018/may… #Recharge /4
Turning bad into good: They didn't want a "right-now thing." That's why 2 men accepted a $1 settlement for their unjust treatment at a @Starbucks — and the agreement to fund a program for young entrepreneurs instead usatoday.com/story/news/nat… #Recharge /5
She used to be a Tea Party activist. She got tired of the lies and conspiracies her “friends” were pushing her to believe online. Now Felicia Cravens is helping people figure out “fake news" — and reporting Russian bots and liars to Facebook buzzfeed.com/craigsilverman… #Recharge /6
The young mom scrawled a note and gave it to a Nazi guard before entering the gas chamber. Remarkably, he delivered it to her husband. More than 8 decades later, her son has turned the note over to a museum. In her words, there is only love indystar.com/story/entertai… #Recharge /7
He woke up in detention at 5:30 a.m. Thursday to discover he had won a prestigious journalism fellowship. Threatened with death by a general in his native Mexico, this fearless journalist has to get freed to accept it — ICE wants to send him back press.org/news-multimedi… /8
That's it for this week. Good news: We're starting a newsletter with @MotherJones, so sign up here to get #Recharge in your inbox each week. Keep charging, even upstream — and have a great week ahead. motherjones.com/politics/2018/… Pic via @USFWSPacSWest /9
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