Zack Linly

1 week ago | newsone.com | Zack Linly

The NAACP announced Tuesday that it is gearing up to file a lawsuit against Elon Musk over the Tesla CEO’s artificial intelligence company, xAI, because a supercomputer facility owned by the company is located near predominantly Black communities in Memphis, and the NAACP is concerned about the air pollution it might cause. From the Associated Press:The xAI data center began operating last year, powered in part by pollution-emitting gas turbines, without first applying for a permit.

1 week ago | bossip.com | Zack Linly

There’s an update to report about Adriana Smith, a metro Atlanta nurse who was declared brain dead in February while pregnant and forced to give birth by the state of Georgia anyway, sparking outrage from reproductive rights advocates as well as any decent human being who believes in body autonomy.

1 week ago | newsone.com | Zack Linly

It has been nearly five years since President Donald Trump launched his failed bid to overturn the 2020 election results by spreading baseless propaganda about the election being rigged, along with the voting machines people used to cast their ballots — and his cohorts are still feeling the burn after backing his factless nonsense.

1 week ago | newsone.com | Zack Linly

For more than a century — 115 years to be exact — the person who holds the office of president of the United States has been invited to the NAACP’s national convention. That tradition has been put on pause for the first time, as President Donald Trump has been disinvited to the proverbial cookout due largely to his second administration’s aversion to all things related to Black people and civil rights.

1 week ago | newsone.com | Zack Linly

President Donald Trump spent the entirety of his 2024 campaign spreading what any objective observer would pan as hate speech against Black and Latino migrants. He outdid his first term’s bigotry, when he generalized Mexican migrants and rapists and drug dealers, by comparing Sount American migrants to Hannibal Lecter, and calling them “animals” who are “not human.” He and his VP, JD Vance, spread malicious disinformation about Haitian migrants eating pets in Ohio.