Tag: Inequality

Companies with seemingly unlimited cash flow like Meta, Microsoft and Google are racing to supply skyrocketing demand for AI data centers. Their unprecedented new method? Hiring electricians, carpenters and blue-collar trade workers by the thousands to build their massive AI supercomputer sites with hundreds of millions in training funds. Beyond the eye-watering paychecks, the real story lies in what this could mean for closing the Black racial wealth gap.

Nine months. That's all it took for Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry, Meta executives, Entergy Corporation, and local officials to secretly orchestrate one of the largest AI data centers on the planet. Now, the cover is blown. A bombshell new report from the New York Times just exposed what really went down behind closed doors to fast-track a project that local Black residents will be forced to pay for in more ways than one.

There are eras in American history that Black folks look back on with horror — defined not only by law and policy, but by lived experience, fear, and resistance. Among them, Jim Crow stands as one of the most devastating systems of racial control in America.

SNL's history shows a glaring underrepresentation of Black women, with only eight cast members in 50 years. This raises questions about the show's commitment to diversity as it prepares for a new season.