Why a Memphis Community Is Fighting Elon Musk’s Supercomputer
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Why a Memphis Community Is Fighting Elon Musk’s Supercomputer

Residents say Mr. Musk’s data center for artificial intelligence is compounding their pollution burden and adding stress on the local electrical grid.
Bill Lucy, Pioneering Labor and Civil Rights Leader, Dies at 90
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Bill Lucy, Pioneering Labor and Civil Rights Leader, Dies at 90

He helped popularize “I Am a Man” as a demand for respect during the 1968 strike by Black sanitation workers in Memphis.