CNN style Architecture | Inside Naomi Campbell’s tranquil Kenyan villa

A dogged work ethic has granted fashion royalty Naomi Campbell a phenomenal 35-year-long modeling and acting career, but even perennial highfliers need some R&R. Campbell takes hers in a spacious and serene East African retreat, where a turquoise saltwater pool stretches from the sunny patio right into the living room.

After a visit to Malindi, Kenya, in the 1990s left Campbell besotted, the supermodel, who at the time dominated runways for Chanel, Vivienne Westwood and Versace, bought an idyllic villa in the sleepy seaside town which has served as her circuit breaker for more than 20 years. “It’s a very calming place,” Campbell told Architectural Digest in a recent interview for the magazine’s May cover story. “You don’t really want to be on the phone. You’re not trying to find a television. You just want to read and be with yourself. It’s nice to just have the silence and the crickets.”  —read more— 

CNN BUSINESS | $1.3 trillion dealmaking frenzy isn’t slowing down

London (CNN Business) – No one knows for sure what the post-coronavirus era holds. But businesses are doing their best to get ready, announcing a wave of mergers and takeover bids designed to prepare them for what’s next.

What’s happening: Global mergers and acquisitions worth $1.3 trillion were announced during the first three months of the year, according to data from Refinitiv. That’s a 94% increase compared to one year ago, and the strongest opening period since records began in 1980.

It’s the third quarter in a row that dealmaking has come in above $1 trillion.  —read more— 

CNN | A Black family’s beach property in California was taken during the Jim Crow era. The county is now giving it back, and it’s worth millions

Los Angeles (CNN) – A century ago, a Black couple owned a beach resort in Manhattan Beach — a Southern California town known for its scenic expanse. An inviting soulful energy and the songs of Black entertainers radiated throughout the corridors of the dance hall and lodge.

But the music and good times would not last due to the strict racial segregation that dominated American life then. Harassment from White neighbors and the Ku Klux Klan tore away at the dreams of owners Charles and Willa Bruce.

The final blow came in 1924 when the city took the property through eminent domain and paid the couple a fraction of what they asked for. The city wanted the land for a park. The Bruces left and died just five years later.  —read more—  

CNN BUSINESS | Goldman Sachs to invest billions in Black women

A Goldman Sachs report shows Black American women hold 90% less wealth than White American men. As a result of the data, Goldman Sachs is investing $10 billion to change those disparities. CNN’s Poppy Harlow and Goldman Sachs Asset Management Global Head of Sustainability & Impact Margaret Anadu discuss how this will impact the Black community.  —watch— 

CNN style | Why NASA’s Space Shuttle was so revolutionary

The Space Shuttle wasn’t just the next step after Apollo, it was a giant leap in the way we understood and used space. CNN remembers the shuttle 40 years after its first launch.  —watch video— 

CNN | 500 million LinkedIn users’ data is for sale on a hacker site

New York (CNN Business)Information scraped from around 500 million LinkedIn user profiles is part of a database posted for sale on a website popular with hackers, the company confirmed Thursday.

The sale of the data was first reported on Tuesday by cybersecurity news and research site CyberNews, which said that an archive including user IDs, names, email addresses, phone numbers, genders, professional titles and links to other social media profiles was being auctioned off on the forum for a four-figure sum.

According to LinkedIn, the database for sale “is actually an aggregation of data from a number of websites and companies.” The data from LinkedIn users includes only information that people listed publicly in their profiles, the professional social media site, which is owned by Microsoft (MSFT), said in a Thursday statement.  –read more—

CNN | DMX, rapper and actor, dies at 50

(CNN) – DMX, a rapper known as much for his troubles as his music, has died, his family announced in a statement. He was 50.

“We are deeply saddened to announce today that our loved one, DMX, birth name of Earl Simmons, passed away at 50-years-old at White Plains Hospital with his family by his side after being placed on life support for the past few days,” family’s statement read in part.

“Earl was a warrior who fought till the very end,” the family continued. “He loved his family with all of his heart and we cherish the times we spent with him.”  —read more— 

CNN | NASA’s Artemis program will land the first person of color on the moon

(CNN) – The Artemis program will land the first person of color on the moon, according to NASA. The new goal for the program, which seeks to land the first woman and the next man on at the lunar south pole by 2024, comes from the Biden-Harris administration.

The administration submitted US President Joe Biden’s priorities for 2022 discretionary spending to Congress Friday. It calls for an increase of more than 6% from the previous year, according to NASA.  —read more—