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Features Janelle De Souza Yesterday Kwame Ture’s activist gave rise to the Black Power movement. - The sons of civil rights activist Kwame Ture did not have much time with their father, but they are carrying on his legacy in their own way as Pan-African activists. Ture, born in TT…

The Civil Human Rights Front on Sunday said it’s disbanding, saying it can no longer operate in the face of what it described as suppression from the authorities. “Unfortunately, for the past year or so, the government repeatedly used the pandemic as a pretext to reject the front and other…

India celebrates its 75th Independence Day at the tail end of a second wave of Covid-19 that has wracked the country. It has been a long year of disease, lockdowns, curfews, graded relaxations. Your freedom of movement has been denied or restricted. Your freedom to assemble has been curtailed as…

Chennai: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin, who piloted his DMK to a spectacular win in the April 6 Assembly election, is likely to attend a virtual interaction with Congress president Sonia Gandhi on August 20. Confirming that the Congress leadership has convened a virtual meet next Friday, possibly…

Why do I have to complete a CAPTCHA? Completing the CAPTCHA proves you are a human and gives you temporary access to the web property. What can I do to prevent this in the future? If you are on a personal connection, like at home, you can run an anti-virus…

Years of back-and-forth between AWS and Microsoft over who would be the ultimate winner of the $10 billion, 10-year JEDI cloud contract resulted in Microsoft losing the deal it initially won. It's hard not to see Microsoft's recent protest of AWS's win of a $10 billion cloud contract with the…

Protests erupted in Tennessee after a school district reinstated a mask mandate for elementary students, and video captures one man screaming at an individual wearing a mask as they walked to their car, saying, 'We know who you are.' State Attorney for Palm Beach County, Dave Aronberg, discusses.Aug. 12, 2021…

Looking to such specialized nervous systems as a model for artificial intelligence may prove just as valuable, if not more so, than studying the human brain. Consider the brains of those ants in your pantry. Each has some 250,000 neurons. Larger insects have closer to 1 million. In my research…

The Professional Teachers’ Union (PTU) announced on Tuesday that it is disbanding, around a week after the government severed ties with the body as it came under attack by state media. In a letter to its members, the union described the decision to disband as “unwanted and difficult”, but said…

Melania Trump sure cares a lot about her rose garden. The former first lady took some time away from her busy post-FLOTUS schedule of going to the spa and eating lunch at Mar-a-Lago to “fire back” at NBC News presidential historian Michael Beschloss, who dared to criticize her (hired hands’)…