A’ja Wilson celebrates with the team after her jersey retirement ceremony before the game against the Auburn Tigers at Colonial Life Arena on February 02, 2025 in Columbia, South Carolina. (Photo by Jacob Kupferman/Getty Images) Directed by Malia Obama, A’ja Wilson’s new Nike commercial spotlights her new “A’One” sneaker and the beauty of Black girlhood. …
Source: FREDERIC J. BROWN / Getty The aftermath of the Eaton wildfires that have plagued Altadena residents for months is slowly making way for rebuilding, restructuring and renewal efforts — but just as a sense of normalcy is tentatively returning, the staggering increase in crime has residents looking for a solution. Last month, the Los…
After he was arrested on a misdemeanor public intoxication charge in July 2023, 33-year-old Glenn Smallwood Jr. was taken into custody at the Angelina County Jail in Lufkin, Texas, where his family claims in a federal lawsuit, obtained by Atlanta Black Star, that he was left to die amid a “readily apparent” “medical and mental…
U.S. Sen. Chris Van Hollen, right, meets with Kilmar Abrego Garcia in San Salvador, El Salvador, on April 17, 2025. Photo by Sen. Van Hollen’s office via Getty Images Chimene Keitner, University of California, Davis Trump administration officials have repeatedly claimed that judges who order the administration to take action to bring deported Venezuelans back…
FILE -Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs participates in “The Four” panel during the FOX Television Critics Association Winter Press Tour in Pasadena, Calif., Jan. 4, 2018. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP, File) Judge Arun Subramanian started the proceedings shortly after 9 a.m. by making several rulings on what things experts would be allowed to testify about when they…
Mary J. Blige may be on the hook for $5 million as news of an explosive lawsuit has surfaced. The “Queen of Hip-Hop Soul” is accused of interfering with business agreements between rapper Vado and M.I.S.A. Management, a company owned by the singer’s former stylist Misa Hylton. In the complaint obtained by Atlanta Black Star…
Actor Lovie Simone poses for a portrait on Friday, April 18, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello) Debuting on Netflix on Thursday, this version of “Forever…” sets the story in Los Angeles in 2018 and 2019 and the couple at the center is Black, played by Love Simone and Michael Cooper, Jr. While cutting…
Rodney Hinton, Jr, (Screenshot from NBC News YouTube) | Larry Henderson, recently retired deputy of the Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office(Hamilton Couty Sheriff’s Office) Just a few hours before the crash, Hinton and other family members met at the police chief’s office and watched a police body camera video showing an officer shoot the teen. A…
Source: zrfphoto / Getty The king of medieval punishments has come up with a new one. On Sunday, President Trump noted that he wants to reopen Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary, the offshore prison that was so ridiculous that it was closed some 60 years ago. Yep, that one. “For too long, America has been plagued by…
An Oregon woman recounted the moments she punched a stranger in the face as he tried to abduct her child. Scottie Grimes told police and local news outlets that she was preparing to take her child to preschool on Tuesday, April 29, when the attempted kidnapping happened. Scottie Grimes says a man tried to kidnap…
