Charles Sowell Kellam, the Black luxury brand CEO who accused Nordstrom of racially profiling and humiliating him during a visit to its Scottsdale, Arizona, store, says the retailer has now barred him from entering any of its locations nationwide. In an Oct. 21 letter obtained by Atlanta Black Star, Nordstrom’s outside counsel told Kellam’s attorneys...
Donald Trump might want to change the channel because four daytime talk show hosts are hot on his case. Trump’s latest attacks on Barack Obama are getting drowned out by the former president’s brutal Cheesecake jab. Obama’s rally remark has taken over the internet, and now White House officials are showing up at the popular...
It was 28 degrees and after midnight when South Carolina cops abandoned an intoxicated Black woman who was dependent on a walker at a dark, unattended gas station despite her objections. A drunk driver struck and killed Tracy Denise Brooks, 56, as she walked on a dark rural road. Last week, Brooks’ son, Bracy Brooks,...
Donald Trump promised to restore the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Instead, his $257 million renovation plan has sparked a growing legal fight, unanswered questions, and a controversy that refuses to fade. With the center still shrouded in tarps, questions about what lies behind the closure are becoming harder to ignore. Now,...
Donald Trump’s latest public appearance turned a routine introduction into a painfully awkward spectacle. Trump turned a simple introduction into a tongue-tied mess, butchering words and names of familiar faces from his inner circle. The 80-year-old’s repeated stumbles only made one recent moment more painful and the explanation he offered did little to help his...
As promised, Kendrick Bates has filed a lawsuit against the local police chief who confronted him in his front yard in plainclothes in an unmarked car, placing his hand against the Black man’s neck while going through his pockets. In the video, Sour Lake Police Chief Aaron Burleson accuses Bates of running stop signs, but...
