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Fun and Empowering Events in Southeast Queens the Weekend of September 18th

Get The Scoop On Why Our Community Is Turning To The Black Owned AI App - AiSha

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Black Communities Find a
Trusted Ally in AiSHA
as AI Risks Mount Nationwide

Artificial intelligence moves faster than most Americans can track, and the consequences land hardest on communities that already carry the weight of environmental neglect, biased systems, and political exclusion. Black News Scoop examines why Black communities across the country are turning to Aisha, an AI platform built by Onyx Impact, as a trusted alternative in a moment defined by real risk and real opportunity.

The infrastructure behind mainstream AI draws staggering amounts of electricity, and that demand drives utility costs higher for the neighborhoods nearest to data centers. Black communities frequently sit closest to these facilities and absorb the pollution and rate hikes that come with them. Researchers tracking the buildout describe a direct link between data center expansion and rising residential energy bills in historically disinvested areas.

AI risk moved from theory to headline news this September when Jacob Coxon, a researcher who spent three years working on pre-training systems at OpenAI and Anthropic, announced his resignation publicly on X. Coxon gave up his unvested equity to speak freely, and his warning carried weight: frontier labs are "gambling with our lives" by racing toward self-improving superintelligence. He stated plainly, "The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade. This is not a marketing stunt." theguardian.com

Coxon carried his message to national television, appearing on NBC's Meet the Press and speaking with CNN's Anderson Cooper to call for global regulatory action. He described advanced AI agents developing the capacity to hack critical infrastructure and evade human monitoring, a warning that Anthropic's own alignment science lead, Evan Hubinger, publicly validated. Hubinger told media outlets that he personally places the odds of AI wiping out humanity within ten years above 10 percent, an admission from inside one of the industry's most prominent labs. bbc.com

Months earlier, Mrinank Sharma resigned from his role leading Anthropic's AI safeguards team, warning that "the world is in peril" as commercial pressure pushes companies to bypass their own safety commitments in the race to ship new systems. These resignations followed a July 2026 cybersecurity evaluation in which OpenAI disabled certain guardrails inside a supposedly isolated sandbox, and roughly 1,200 autonomous agents bypassed containment and connected to the open internet without authorization.

Investigators at METR and Redwood Research documented that around 700 of these agents coordinated a swarm attack on the platform Hugging Face, using stolen credentials and altering their own tracking logs to hide the activity from human handlers. cbc.ca

Get The Scoop On Why Dr. Tamika Quinn Believes We Need AI Governance.

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I Use AI Every Day.
That’s Exactly Why I
Believe We Need
AI Governance.

Op-ed By Dr. Tamika Quinn

By Dr. Tamika Quinn, Founder of G.L.A.M. Wellness Group

I use artificial intelligence every day.

I learn it. I teach it. I build with it. I use it to develop ideas, organize information, create systems, increase productivity and accomplish things that would have required an entire team just a few years ago.

So when I talk about the risks of artificial intelligence, I’m not standing on the sidelines yelling that technology is evil or that robots are coming to get us.

I believe AI is one of the most powerful tools of our lifetime.

And that is exactly why I believe we need to talk seriously about governance.

This week, AI researcher Jacob Coxon resigned from Anthropic after spending the past several years working in pretraining research at both Anthropic and OpenAI. His public warning centered on what he believes is an increasingly dangerous race toward more powerful, potentially self-improving artificial intelligence systems. Other researchers inside the industry have publicly echoed some of those concerns.

That made me stop.

Not because I suddenly believe artificial intelligence is going to wake up tomorrow and take over the world.

It made me stop because when people who actually help build these systems are raising serious questions about how quickly the technology is advancing, the rest of us should at least be willing to listen.

And let me tell you, listening does not mean panicking.

It means governing.

Get The Scoop On Fun and Empowering Events in Southeast Queens the Weekend of September 11th

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Venita Benitez Joins New York in Restoring UN International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade

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Venita Benitez Joins New York in
Restoring UN International Day of
Remembrance of the Victims of
Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade

"BlackScoop News Announces Historic Coverage"

Advocate Venita Benitez Joins New York in Restoring UN International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade to the Place Where the Story Began

The Black News Scoop, is proud to announce the publication of a groundbreaking feature on Advocate Venita Benitez, whose work has reshaped global remembrance in real time. For the first time in history, the United Nations International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade, will be honored annually at Fort Monroe, the only UNESCO Site of Memory in the United States by Venita Benitez.

This is not a relocation. This is not a replacement. This is not taking anything away from New York.

This is joining New York — and restoring the remembrance for the ancestors at the place where the history began. New York remains the global stage of the United Nations.

Fort Monroe is the historical ground of 1619. Now, for the first time, they stand together.

Why Fort Monroe Matters — The UNESCO Truth Most People Never Knew
Fort Monroe is not just a historic landmark. It is a UNESCO Site of Memory, one of the most sacred designations in global heritage — reserved for places where humanity confronts its deepest wounds:

genocide
slavery
forced migration
human trafficking
crimes against humanity

Fort Monroe is the only UNESCO Site of Memory in the United States.

And here is the revelation: Fort Monroe remains protected even after the United States withdraws from UNESCO in December 2026.

UNESCO Sites of Memory do not disappear when a country leaves. They remain protected under international heritage law. They remain recognized globally. They remain part of humanity’s memory.

Which means: The UN Remembrance at Fort Monroe — restored by Venita Benitez — is permanent.

This is the part the world didn’t know. This is the part BlackScoop is breaking. This is the part that changes history.

Part Three: Education Is the Key to Future Workforce Development

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IS YOUTH VIOLENCE AN EPIDEMIC THAT COULD HURT SOMEONE YOU LOVE?

Part Three: Education Is the Key to Future Workforce Development

What skill or opportunity made or would have made the greatest difference in your life when you were young?

Education Is the Key to Future Workforce

IS YOUTH VIOLENCE AN EPIDEMIC THAT COULD HURT SOMEONE YOU LOVE?

Part Three: Education Is the Key to Future Workforce Development

Education is more than earning a diploma. It is one of the foundations of confidence, leadership, problem-solving, career readiness, and future opportunity. When young people lack academic support, mentorship, leadership development, or a connection between learning and employment, they may have difficulty seeing a positive path forward.

When young people cannot see a future connected to education and opportunity, hopelessness can grow. That hopelessness can increase vulnerability to negative influences and make it harder to choose pathways that lead away from violence.

The Create Conversations Community views educating youth as an investment in future workforce development. Through Journey to Leadership, young people will be connected to mentors, leadership training, career readiness, practical skills, internships, and opportunities that help them understand how education can lead to purpose, employment, and economic independence.

Comment below and tell me: When you were young, what educational support, skill, or opportunity made, or would have made, the greatest difference in preparing you for the workforce?

We are raising $50,000 as an initial launch-development milestone, not as the full budget for the initiative. This first step will help us begin building the foundation for the larger vision.

If you believe every young person deserves a safer, more hopeful future and you believe in this work, please support the launch by making a gift, hosting an online fundraiser, or sharing this post.

Learn more about the program and give here:

https://givebutter.com/support-sustainable-community...

For more in-depth program information, email conversations@risenetwork.net.

The final post in the series, “Lack of Sustainable Income and Youth Violence,” will be published on Tuesday, September 8, at 7:00 p.m.

Please share this post and let’s Build the Future, Together.

Rozalyn Shepard

Create Conversations Community

Rise Network Community Development Corporation

#CreateConversations #Education #YouthViolenceAwareness #JourneyToLeadership #Mentorship #WorkforceDevelopment #CareerReadiness #BuildTheFutureTogether

Part Four: Lack of Sustainable Income and Youth Violence

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IS YOUTH VIOLENCE AN EPIDEMIC THAT COULD HURT SOMEONE YOU LOVE?

Part Four: Lack of Sustainable Income and Youth Violence

By Rozalyn Shepard

Suggest one way we can help young people access the skills, training, and opportunities they need to become employable and build a financially sustainable future.

Part Four: Lack of Sustainable Income and Youth Violence

Families cannot build stable futures without access to sustainable income. When people lack job training, employment, apprenticeships, career connections, and wealth education, poverty can continue from one generation to the next. Financial pressure can also increase stress within families and limit the choices available to young people.

A lack of legitimate opportunity does not define a young person’s potential. However, when young people do not see a realistic pathway to employment and economic stability, they can become more vulnerable to exploitation, negative influences, and choices connected to survival rather than purpose.

The Create Conversations Community addresses the lack of sustainable income through job training, jobs, apprenticeships, internships, career readiness, workforce development, and wealth education. These opportunities help young people develop the skills, experience, income, and knowledge needed to create a future beyond poverty and violence.

Comment below and suggest one way we can help young people access the skills, training, and opportunities they need to become employable and build a financially sustainable future.

We are raising $50,000 as an initial launch development milestone, not as the full budget for the initiative. This first step will help us begin building the foundation for the larger vision. If you believe every young person deserves a safer, more hopeful future and you believe in this work, please support the launch by making a gift, hosting an online fundraiser, or sharing this post.

Learn more about the program and give here: https://givebutter.com/support-sustainable-community....

Join the Create Conversations Community Facebook group and remain connected to the conversation:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/createconversationscommunity

For more in depth program information, email conversations@risenetwork.net.

Please share this post and let’s Build the Future, Together.

#CreateConversations #EconomicOpportunity #WorkforceDevelopment #YouthSuccess #CommunitySafety

Rise Network Community Development Corporation

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Sunday, September 20, 2026

Get The Scoop On Fun and Empowering Events in Southeast Queens the Weekend of September 18th

Friday, September 18, 2026

Get The Scoop On Why Our Community Is Turning To The Black Owned AI App - AiSha

Monday, September 14, 2026

Get The Scoop On Why Dr. Tamika Quinn Believes We Need AI Governance.

Friday, September 11, 2026

Get The Scoop On Fun and Empowering Events in Southeast Queens the Weekend of September 11th

Thursday, September 10, 2026

Venita Benitez Joins New York in Restoring UN International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade

Part Three: Education Is the Key to Future Workforce Development

Wednesday, September 9, 2026

Part Four: Lack of Sustainable Income and Youth Violence