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Why is Steve Biko's remarkable legacy often overlooked?

9 years 1 month ago
While Nelson Mandela, Oliver Tambo, and Desmond Tutu are rightly venerated for their role in opposing and ending white minority rule in South Africa, another leader of the liberation years has been remarkably overlooked: Bantu Steven Biko, who led the enormously influential Black Consciousness Movement. Four decades after his death in police custody on September 12 1977, he deserves to be recognized as one of the towering heroes of the anti-apartheid struggle.

UK lawmakers approve EU withdrawal bill

9 years 1 month ago
British lawmakers voted early Tuesday in favor of giving the European Union (Withdrawal) Bill a second reading, moving the bill to the next stage of the Parliamentary process. The vote was 326 MPs in favor and 290 against.

16 years after 9/11: The state of the terrorist threat

9 years 1 month ago
Sixteen years after the 9/11 attacks, there is a fair amount of good news about the state of the battle against jihadist terrorists: The United States has not suffered a successful attack by a foreign terrorist organization since al Qaeda's horrific attack on the World Trade Center and Pentagon.

Bannon: Comey firing was worst mistake

9 years 1 month ago
Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon believes President Donald Trump's decision to fire former FBI Director James Comey was one of the worst mistakes in "modern political history."

Betsy Devos is right about campus sexual assault

9 years 1 month ago
The education secretary was widely derided for announcing reversal of Obama policy on campus assault, but she is right to defend due process for the accused, who "must know that guilt is not predetermined," writes Cathy Young.
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