Community and student leaders plan to gather Tuesday at Wayne State University for a candlelight vigil marking the one-year anniversary of Boko Haram militants kidnapping hundreds of schoolgirls in Nigeria. Hosted by the Detroit Coalition of the #BringBackOurGirls campaign, the 8 p.m. event is at Gullen Mall between the Student Center Building and the David Adamany Undergraduate Library. "Students and members of the Detroit community want to let the world know that - while it may no longer be breaking news - the plight of these young innocents is heart-breaking indeed. And we have not forgotten them," said event organizer Kim Trent, a member of Wayne State's Board of Governors and the Midwest region social action coordinator for Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc. Her group and others, including the Detroit Branch of the NAACP and the National Congress of Black Women, Greater Detroit Chapter, have issued a "call to action," according to a press release. Vigil organizers plan "to remember, pray for and raise our voices in defense of kidnapped Nigerian girls - and the estimated 800,000 Nigerian children who have since been victimized by the terror of turmoil in that nation," the statement read.

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