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After Tuesday’s game, Reese admitted to reporters that the viral missed layup against Clark and the Fever motivated her performance for the Dream against the Aces.
Nolan Wells should have been celebrating his 19th birthday today.
Instead, his family can only look back on memories while grappling with a growing list of unanswered questions about how the teen died.
News of Rasmussen’s death drew a massive reaction from fans, as many reflected on the place or impact ESPN has had on their lives since Rasmussen started the network in 1979.
Jafari Stewart spent 16 months fighting felony charges after Huntsville, Texas, police accused him of assaulting two officers who entered his home during a welfare check.
The 39-year-old father — who had once hoped to become a police officer himself — was facing the possibility of a lengthy prison sentence.
But there was something police and prosecutors reportedly weren’t expecting:
His son had recorded the encounter.
When Stewart’s attorney played that video for jurors, they got to compare what they saw with the officers’ version of events.
The verdict? NOT GUILTY.
“Without that video, I would have been in jail,” Stewart said.
The case raises a bigger question: What happens when there’s no camera rolling?
Full story + video: https://atlantablackstar.com/2026/08/11/black-father-cleared-of-felonies-after-son-records-arrest-inside-home/
Nolan Wells’ phone has become another point of contention in the questions surrounding what happened after the July 4 trip.
Now, an attorney is defending why the phone was kept — and took to a podcast to make a striking claim about what it could reveal. But there’s an important piece of context missing from that version of events.
The full story gets into what was said, what we know about the phone, and why the timeline matters.
Read the full breakdown: https://atlantablackstar.com/2026/08/12/nolan-wells-team-defends-keeping-phone/
Shanquella Robinson went to Cabo with six friends in October 2022. She never came home.
Her death became national news after video surfaced showing the 25-year-old being brutally attacked inside the villa where the group was staying.
Nearly four years later, her mother says she still doesn’t have answers about what happened before, during and after that attack.
Now she’s asking a court to compel one of the people who was there — and whom she alleges participated in the attack — to answer questions under oath.
Her mother says she’s “not going to let this go.”
There’s a lot more behind this latest legal move and the questions the family says remain unanswered:
Brittany Boltinhouse was stripped of her Miss North Carolina title after posts using the n-word surfaced.
Now she’s pushing back, saying the crown was “ripped from” her because of her conservative and religious beliefs.
Pageant organizers tell a very different story. They say this wasn’t about politics — or one old post — but a pattern of racist language over an “extended period of time.”
The dispute over why she was removed is getting messier.
Brittany Boltinhouse was stripped of her Miss North Carolina title after posts using the n-word surfaced.
Now she’s pushing back, saying the crown was “ripped from” her because of her conservative and religious beliefs.
Pageant organizers tell a very different story. They say this wasn’t about politics — or one old post — but a pattern of racist language over an “extended period of time.”
The dispute over why she was removed is getting messier.
Whitney Houston’s gowns, platinum awards and personal keepsakes are being auctioned off — should her collection have been preserved together?
Whitney Houston’s Legacy Foundation is auctioning pieces from her archives, including stage-worn fashion, awards and personal keepsakes, with 100% of the proceeds benefiting the foundation. But the sale has sparked a bigger conversation among fans about what should happen to the personal artifacts of Black cultural icons after they’re gone.
LAPD Officer Daniel Flores reportedly collected roughly 90 recordings of colleagues making racist, sexist and homophobic comments and turned them over in an effort to expose misconduct.
But California's two-party consent law prohibits recording confidential conversations without permission, and prosecutors have now charged Flores with 16 felony counts of eavesdropping.
If convicted, he could face up to 13 years in prison.
The case raises a complicated question: Where should the law draw the line when evidence of alleged workplace misconduct was obtained illegally?
Howard University interim president Wayne A. I. Frederick said the school made the decision to reenroll the students after receiving hundreds of calls from concerned students and parents. According to Frederick, Howard University looked at several factors, including records for pending financial aid, and finally made the decision to readmit the students.
The death of 18-year-old Nolan Wells has sparked a wave of online harassment that now extends far beyond the investigation itself. While Wells' family says they've endured racist threats, hate mail, and targeted harassment, the young men who were with him before he disappeared have launched a GiveSendGo campaign, saying they've also been subjected to threats, accusations, and defamation. The fundraiser has raised more than $87,000, highlighting how social media is shaping public narratives around high-profile cases long before investigators reach conclusions.
A North Carolina man has filed a lawsuit after he and a woman were violently arrested during a 2023 encounter that began with officers claiming they smelled marijuana at a bus stop.
According to the complaint, the cigarette was legal hemp, and the lawsuit argues officers had already been informed that the odor of marijuana alone was no longer enough to establish probable cause. Body camera footage from the incident, which later went viral, shows officers repeatedly punching the woman before arresting both individuals.
The full story examines the lawsuit, the department's history with low-level marijuana enforcement, and the legal arguments at the center of the case.