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☆ A new book unearths a buried history of photography in West Africa
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-01 | by ( Thomas Page | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

CNN —The dominant perception of early photography from West Africa is that it was taken through a colonizing lens. These are questions asked by a new book that seeks to re-examine the history of photography in the region. Her book demonstrates that gap was short, and history has been obscured in a way that has disenfranchised many Africans. Unlike some other West African nations, Senegal has no recorded history of portraiture before photography, Paoletti said. HUM Images/Universal Images Group Editorial/Getty ImagesTo Paoletti, it’s evidence photography in West Africa didn’t evolve in isolation.

Persons: Giulia Paoletti, ”, Mama Casset, “, ’, Frenchman Jules Itier, Louis, Paoletti, –, “ It’s, Adolphe Burdo, Burdo, visite, Burdo’s, Augustus Washington, Macky Kane, – Paula, ’ ”, Alfred Stieglitz, Fatou Thioune, Paula, ” Paoletti, Oumar Ka, Ka, I’d, Oumar Organizations: CNN, Department of Art, University of Virginia, CRDS, Dakar ”, Sun, The, Institut, du Sénégal, University of Dakar, Princeton University Press Locations: West Africa, Senegal, ‘, St, French West Africa, Belgian, Dakar, “, Africa, Berlin, Louis, Touba, Senegalese

☆ Billionaire Ronald Lauder threatens to pull funding if UPenn doesn’t do more to fight antisemitism
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-17 | by ( Matt Egan | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

Even before the Palestine Writes Literature Festival started, UPenn leaders acknowledged it would include speakers with a history of making antisemitic remarks. “You are forcing me to reexamine my financial support absent satisfactory measures to address antisemitism at the university,” Lauder wrote. The Palestine Writes festival has created a backlash that prominent donors, including billionaire Marc Rowan and former US Ambassador Jon Huntsman, who have vowed to cut off funding. “We know who they are and what they did.”Magill, UPenn’s president, conceded over the weekend that the response to the Palestine Writes Literature Festival was inadequate. Talk about resistance, talk about politics and power and culture and song and books and food and all of these things,” Susan Abulhawa, executive director of the Palestine Writes Literature Festival, told CNN.

Persons: Ronald Lauder, Lauder, UPenn, “, ” Lauder, Liz Magill, Marc Rowan, Jon Huntsman, Rowan, Magill, Vahan Gureghian, ”, ” Magill, Susan Abulhawa Organizations: New, New York CNN, University of Pennsylvania, CNN, Daily, Forbes, World Jewish Congress, UPenn, Lauder Institute, Wharton, Department of Arts and Sciences, The Lauder Institute, UPenn’s, Penn, “, University Locations: New York, Palestinian, Israel, Palestine, Austria, Philadelphia, American

☆ Billionaire Ronald Lauder threatens to stop Penn donations unless the school takes a stronger stance against antisemitism
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-17 | by ( Madeline Berg | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Billionaire Ronald Lauder wrote a letter threatening to stop donations to the University of Pennsylvania. AdvertisementAdvertisementRonald Lauder, the billionaire Estée Lauder heir, wrote a searing letter to the University of Pennsylvania's president threatening to stop donations to the school if it doesn't take a stronger stance against antisemitism. "Those invited to the event had a history of not just strong anti-Israel bias, but outright antisemitism," he wrote. "The University did not, and emphatically does not, endorse these speakers or their views," Magill wrote in an email to the Penn community on Sunday. Lauder, who is worth $4.5 billion, per Forbes, has donated millions of dollars to Penn, as has his brother, Leonard.

Persons: Ronald Lauder, Lauder, —, Estée Lauder, Penn, Elizabeth Magill, Marc Rowan, Dick Wolf, Huntsman, David Magerman, Rowan, Magill, Steve Fluharty, Fluharty, Leonard, Batia Ofer, Israel's, Les Organizations: University of Pennsylvania, Service, University of, Apollo Global Management, Penn, Wolf Humanities Center, Ivy League, The Daily, Penn's Department of Arts and Science, University, Forbes, Institute, Wharton School, Penn Law, The Lauder Institute, Republican, Jewish, Harvard, Harvard's Kennedy School, University of Pennsylvania's Locations: Israel, Palestine, Penn, Cambridge

☆ Elon Musk calls for federal department of AI after Capitol Hill summit
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-13 | by ( Rohan Goswami | In Rohangoswamicnbc | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Tesla CEO Elon Musk arrives for a U.S. Senate bipartisan Artificial Intelligence Insight Forum at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., Sept. 13, 2023. Tesla CEO Elon Musk called for a federal department of artificial intelligence in a conversation with reporters following a Capitol Hill summit that featured high-profile tech leaders, activists and researchers. "I think this meeting could go down in history as important to the future of civilization," Musk told reporters after the summit. Musk thought it's likely the federal AI department could operate similarly to the Federal Aviation Administration or the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, adding that those in the space had to be "proactive while reactive." There has been little news from within the company, but Musk has made repeated public statements that AI development must have strong guardrails.

Persons: Elon Musk, Musk, Tesla, Sam Altman, Sundar Pichai, it's Organizations: U.S, Senate, Intelligence, Capitol, Washington , D.C, Google, Federal Aviation Administration, U.S . Securities, Exchange Commission Locations: Washington ,

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