Always remember, anything is possible when you work together," Usher said. Abdul-Jabbar added, “Your community is an inspiration, and I can’t wait to see the incredible things you will all achieve."

By the 1970s, inured in the culture of the moment, progressive reformers were driven to do something in Baltimore and across America that many of their peers would have considered anathema a decade earlier: rein in the authority of the purportedly wise men running powerful institutions.

Microsoft says it has developed a breakthrough quantum processor based on a new state of matter, giving it a clear path to achieve quantum computing’s long-term promise of solving some of the world’s most difficult problems.