Malala Yousafzai in Philadelphia: Nobel laureate accepts WHYY’s Lifelong Learning Award, gives a shoutout to the Eagles

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Malala Yousafzai was in Philadelphia on Tuesday night to accept WHYY’s Lifelong Learning Award. More than 300 people came to see her be interviewed live onstage by Terry Gross, co-host of WHYY’s “Fresh Air.”

Many conversations about Yousafzai return to the 2012 attack when a member of the Taliban shot her in the head on a school bus. She was 15 years old. That moment came up again during her conversation with Gross…

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