Capital B

1 week ago | capitalbnews.org | Adam Mahoney

Last summer, Elon Musk quietly transformed a portion of a South Memphis, Tennessee, community established by a group of formerly enslaved people in 1863 into what the world’s wealthiest man called “Colossus” — the planet’s most powerful supercomputer. The artificial intelligence venture turned an old manufacturing plant into a powerful 550-acre supercomputer designed to train Grok, which is his AI company’s “anti-woke” chatbot that deliberately pushes boundaries on controversial topics.

1 week ago | capitalbnews.org | Adam Mahoney

One of the most underreported aspects of life for Black undocumented migrants can be summed up in one statistic: They’re deported at a rate four times more often than their numbers would suggest, according to an analysis of federal data by the Black Alliance for Just Immigration. The analysis showed that while Black migrants make up 5.4% of the undocumented population in the U.S., they make up 20.3% of migrants facing removal based on criminal convictions.

1 week ago | capitalbnews.org | Adam Mahoney

This is the first story in our series chronicling the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. In November 1960, three 6-year-old Black girls climbed 18 steps into history, forever changing the face of American education and democracy.

1 week ago | capitalbnews.org | Brandon Tensley

As Minnesotans prepare to pay their final respects to Democratic state Rep. Melissa Hortman, lawmakers remembered her as an advocate for a range of causes that improved the lives of Black and other marginalized people. Hortman, 55, was gunned down at her home in a Minneapolis suburb on June 14 in what the authorities said was a “politically motivated” attack. Her husband, Mark, was also killed.

2 weeks ago | capitalbnews.org | Brandon Tensley

Malcolm Graham says that his sister’s body was still in the morgue when he noticed that people were rallying around the importance of forgiving her killer. A librarian who loved her community, Cynthia Graham Hurd was one of the nine Black worshippers who were fatally shot on June 17, 2015, at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina.