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The Zuckerbergs Founded Two Bay Area Schools. Now They’re Closing.

Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Dr. Priscilla Chan, opened the schools to help communities of color. Some families wonder if the shutting of the schools is related to his D.E.I. retrenchment.

© Mike Chen for The New York Times

The Primary School in East Palo Alto, Calif., will close in the summer of 2026.

Robert S. Douglas, Founder of the Black Dog, Dies at 93

25 avril 2025 à 03:30
The logo for his tavern on Martha’s Vineyard transformed a black Labrador into an international emblem for summertime.

© Brooks Kraft/Corbis, via Getty Images

Items from The Black Dog are instant collectibles for visitors to Martha’s Vineyard who wanted to take a piece of their summer vacation home with them.

Elon Musk’s xAI accused of pollution over Memphis supercomputer

25 avril 2025 à 04:09

Hearing scheduled for Friday as residents say AI company has distributed leaflets that downplay pollution dangers

Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company is stirring controversy in Memphis, Tennessee. That’s where he’s building a massive supercomputer to power his company xAI. Community residents and environmental activists say that since the supercomputer was fired up last summer it has become one of the biggest air polluters in the county. But some local officials have championed the billionaire, saying he’s investing in Memphis.

The first public hearing with the health department is scheduled for Friday, where county officials will hear from all sides of the debate. In the run-up to the hearing, secretive fliers claiming xAI has low emissions were sent to residents of historically Black neighborhoods; at the same time, environmental groups have been amassing data about how much pollution the AI company is likely generating.

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© Photograph: Steve Jones/Flight by Southwings for Southern Environmental Law Center

© Photograph: Steve Jones/Flight by Southwings for Southern Environmental Law Center

‘They excavated a nightclub!’: uncovering Black British history beyond London – podcast

From struggles over miscarriages of justice to groundbreaking music, Lanre Bakare looks at the places and events that shaped Black Britain in the Thatcher years

When Guardian arts and culture correspondent Lanre Bakare was growing up, he learned the same Black British history as many of us did. It was a series of singular events: the docking of the Windrush in 1948, unrest in Notting Hill or Brixton, the murder of Stephen Lawrence. All important, but all firmly focused on the capital.

Now Lanre has written a book about the Thatcher years, looking at the stories that are less often told: those that took place outside London, in Liverpool – with the oldest Black community in the UK – or in his home town of Bradford.

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© Illustration: Joe Plimmer/Guardian Pictures/BBC, John Deakin/Getty, John Akomfrah, David Levene, Chris Steele-Perkins/Magnum Photos, Don McPhee, Hulton Deutsch, Evening Standard, Trinity Mirror, Gary Weaser

© Illustration: Joe Plimmer/Guardian Pictures/BBC, John Deakin/Getty, John Akomfrah, David Levene, Chris Steele-Perkins/Magnum Photos, Don McPhee, Hulton Deutsch, Evening Standard, Trinity Mirror, Gary Weaser

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