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Edison Sparked the Fire That Destroyed Black Altadena
BLACKPRESSUSA—California investigators determined Southern California Edison equipment caused the Eaton Fire, killing 19 people and devastating one of Los Angeles County’s most significant Black communities. What comes next—accountability, recovery, and whether Black Altadena can hold onto the land generations built—remains unresolved.
By James Farr
What we knew. What we know? Now what?
- We knew the fire started beneath an Edison tower.
- We knew there was extreme fire weather. We knew families were dead, homes were gone, and Black Altadena had been scattered before anybody could tell them exactly why.
- For more than a year and a half, survivors lived inside that question.
Now we know.
- The investigation has named Southern California Edison. It has identified the tower. It has documented the electrical arcing. It has followed what fell from that tower to the vegetation below.
- Twelve seconds later, Altadena was burning.
- So the question is no longer, “What started the Eaton Fire?”
We know.
- Now what happens when knowing requires somebody—or somebody’s—to answer for it?
- That is where accountability begins.
- That is where this story moves forward.
If Wakanda were a real place, Altadena would be one of its communities.
A Black community that built something for itself. Homes. Families. Equity. Generations. In a region where redlining, restrictive covenants, and discriminatory lending practices told Black people where they could live—and where they could not—Black Altadena found a way to build anyway.
And then it burned.
Nineteen people died. More than 9,400 structures were destroyed. But if you understand what Altadena was, you understand why counting what burned was never going to tell the whole story.
Because some of what burned had taken generations to build.
That is the part of this story that matters now.
For more than a year and a half, fire survivors lived with the question of what started the Eaton Fire while trying to figure out whether they could afford to come home to the community it destroyed.
Now we know. Southern California Edison.
The Los Angeles County Fire Department’s Fire Investigation Unit, working in conjunction with CAL FIRE, determined that electrical arcing from an out-of-service Edison transmission tower ignited the Eaton Fire on Jan. 7, 2025.
That finding answers one question. It started with Edison.
What happens to Black Altadena from here is the question that remains.
Edison had real-time weather information from its own monitoring systems, even as a National Weather Service red flag warning remained in effect for Los Angeles County. The winds that night blew at hurricane force—80 miles an hour—with no water to douse what any spark would become. The relevant transmission lines remained energized.
At approximately 6:11 p.m., a neighbor’s surveillance camera captured two bright blue and white electrical arc flashes mid-slope on the mountain above his home. Glowing material fell from the flashes toward the ground below. Investigators identified the location as Tower #1, the same tower another witness described seeing fire beneath from his backyard.
Two independent witnesses. Video evidence. Edison’s own meteorological data. All pointing to the same tower, the same moment, the same company.
The formal origin and cause investigation did not begin until January 9. Fire behavior and life-safety conditions on the night of Jan. 7 and the morning of January 8 made the scene inaccessible.
The Night the System Reached Its Limit
At 6:11 p.m., the fire started. Minutes later, the first 911 call came in. By 7:10 p.m., Los Angeles County Fire Department investigators had arrived at the burn perimeter—and found streets still on fire, residents still trapped and a system stretched past its capacity across two simultaneous catastrophic blazes.
LACFD investigator Casey Flanders arrived at the scene with a mandate to preserve evidence and determine cause.
Flanders pivoted.
An arson investigator—a man whose job is to read fire after it passes—spent that night pulling Black residents out of burning vehicles in West Altadena.
That is not a footnote. That is the architecture of what happened.
The county-commissioned after-action review would later document weaknesses in the emergency response, including outdated policies, inconsistent practices, and communication vulnerabilities. When the spark came, the emergency apparatus that existed to protect this community was already confronting simultaneous catastrophic fires.
Casey Flanders saved lives that night.
The system that required him to do it failed the people he saved.
Four days after the fire began, Pedro Pizarro, president and chief executive officer of Edison International, toured the origin site.
At that point, 18 deaths had been confirmed. The 19th victim had not yet been found.
No charges had been filed. The investigation was still open. Edison had not admitted responsibility.
Pizarro toured anyway.
What the Fire Took
Rodney Nickerson lived in his Altadena home for 57 years. He died in the fire. He was one of 19.
His daughter, Kimiko Nickerson, was born in that house. She gave her first live media interview on “Conversation Live: Altadena Forward,” describing a man who walked the Rose Bowl every morning, read the Los Angeles Times cover to cover every Sunday after church.
“He was a strong, intellectual, funny, vibrant, energetic man,” Kimiko Nickerson said. “He always had a good word for you, or a good article out of the newspaper, something that would get you through the day, or he had a Bible prayer for you.”
She now returns to the property with a lawn chair. She sits on what used to be the front of the house. She watches the crews work through neighboring lots.
She listens for birds.
“I’m gonna miss the birds and the woodpeckers,” she said. “There are a lot of trees they’re gonna take down that they’ve marked—trees I climbed as a child, grew up in as a child with my neighbors and my friends. And they won’t be there when I go back.”
She paused before she finished the thought.
“It’s just a moment that you didn’t even really know you were in until it was taken away from you.”
The Legal Clock Is Running
Attorney Carl Douglas has spent 45 years in courtrooms.
Douglas, managing partner of Douglas Hicks Law, represents Kimiko Nickerson. He also represents the family of Lora Swayne, a woman he knew personally for 40 years who died in the fire.
“Never in my 45 years have I ever represented the family of someone who I knew when they were alive,” Douglas said on “Conversation Live: Altadena Forward.” “This ain’t just about business for me now. This is personal.”
The process, Douglas said, will take a minimum of three years.
For Altadena’s Black families—many uninsured or underinsured, many elderly, many holding generational wealth tied to land now covered in ash—three years is not procedural language.
Three years is the difference between holding on and being priced out permanently by developers already circling the burn zone.
The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office is reviewing the investigative report for possible criminal charges.
What comes of that review remains an open question.
Extraction Dressed as Recovery
Dr. Eshele Williams, a licensed marriage and family therapist and Altadena community voice, named what she sees unfolding alongside the legal process.
“They’re offering extraction dressed up as recovery,” Williams said on “Conversation Live: Altadena Forward.” “What they’re not offering is restoration.”
Martin Gordon knows exactly what extraction looks like.
Gordon—an attorney and chairman of the Pasadena Community Coalition—escaped the fire with minutes to spare.
His wife was out of town, caring for her mother, when she called him. She had pulled up their Ring camera remotely and watched the fire closing in on their house.
She told him to get out.
He looked outside. He grabbed what he could and moved.
The fire took everything else.
His home. His writings. His archive. His artifacts. A Black Panther collection he had spent a lifetime building—gone.
Days later, Gordon stood in a church where the Altadena community had gathered in the immediate aftermath. He had no ID. No ATM card. He could not walk into a bank and prove who he was.
The fire had not just destroyed his property.
It had temporarily erased his identity and his ability to access his money.
Daryl, a longtime Altadena property owner who asked that only his first name be used, sold his land in the aftermath.
He is one person.
He is also a pattern that community advocates watch with urgency, knowing that each parcel that transfers out of Black ownership narrows the path back for everyone who intends to return.
The Dome Holds
Kimiko Nickerson finds food trucks, neighbors checking on neighbors, and people she has known for 50 years showing up with presence and with hands.
“It seems like as soon as you go above Woodbury Boulevard, the love starts,” she said. “When you get up there, it is just breathtaking. I encourage people to go see the devastation and see the change as it comes.”
On “Conversation Live: Altadena Forward,” Farr offered a frame for what Nickerson described—Altadena as a Wakanda community.
“It has a dome over it right now,” she said.
The dome holds. Southern California Edison.
An out-of-service tower. Dry vegetation. A red flag day. Nineteen lives.
What the courts, regulators, prosecutors and the county do with that finding will help determine whether Altadena’s Black families rebuild on their own land or watch someone else build on it for them.
Forward
“All things are possible if you just push forward every day,” she said. “Change will come, but you have to work through the change—with God and a strong mind.”
Her father taught her that.
In the house she was born in. The house he read the Times in every Sunday. The house he came home to after the Rose Bowl, after church, after 57 years of mornings in Altadena.
The investigation has named who took that house.
Now Altadena watches to see who answers for it.
Edison Sparked the Fire That Destroyed Black Altadena by James Farr
This report draws from the official Eaton Fire Investigation Report, Case No. 25CALAC-009087, produced by the Los Angeles County Fire Department and filed by the multi-agency investigation team. Some portions of the public report carry redactions. This report draws only from what the verified public record confirms. Interviews with Kimiko Nickerson, Carl Douglas, Martin Gordon, Dr. Eshele Williams, and Daryl were conducted on “Conversation Live: Altadena Forward,” broadcast on KBLA Talk 1580.
By Fred Redmond
Everywhere you look, everything costs too much. Families are stretching every paycheck to cover soaring grocery bills. Too many are struggling to make rent. Child care, health care and gas bills continue to strain household budgets. Working people are doing everything right, yet too many are still falling behind.
For Latina workers, this crisis is compounded by a persistent and unjust pay gap. That’s why we observe Latina Equal Pay Day on Oct. 8 this year. It brings attention to the fact that among full-time, year-round workers, Latinas earned just 60 cents in 2025 for every dollar earned by white men. That wage gap isn’t just a statistic—it means smaller paychecks, fewer opportunities to build wealth, less financial security and harder choices about how to provide for their families.
Latinas deserve equal pay for equal work. Full stop. Anything less hurts working families and weakens our economy. A union contract can help level the playing field.
The evidence is clear. Hispanic workers overall receive a large wage boost from union membership, with a 16.4% wage premium compared with nonunion Latino workers. Latinas in a union earn about $15,288 more per year than Latinas who are not in a union. Most importantly, union contracts also help narrow the gender pay gap: Women working full time in union jobs earn 86.2 cents for every dollar earned by men who are union members—a significantly smaller gap than among nonunion workers.
Negotiated contracts replace arbitrary decisions with clear wage scales, transparent pay systems and enforceable workplace standards. Instead of leaving pay to bias or favoritism, union contracts establish fair standards that workers can enforce.
A report from the Economic Policy Institute finds that strengthening workers’ rights to organize and increasing union density would significantly reduce racial wage gaps while strengthening our economy and our democracy. Communities with higher union membership invest more in public education, are more likely to expand access to health care and provide stronger unemployment protections when people lose their jobs.
Our labor movement has always understood that civil rights and workers’ rights are inseparable. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. recognized that truth when he stood with striking sanitation workers in Memphis, Tennessee. Today, we carry that legacy forward by fighting for workplaces where every worker is respected, protected and paid fairly.
Latina Equal Pay Day should not simply remind us how far we still have to go. It should remind us that we already know how to make progress. Progress happens when workers organize. It happens when we bargain together. And it happens when we stand in solidarity with one another. That’s why we must elect leaders who will fight to protect workers’ rights, strengthen unions and defend our democracy.
We must recommit ourselves to building an economy where every worker is valued, every paycheck reflects the dignity of work and every Latina receives the equal pay she has long deserved. Because when Latinas are paid fairly, every family can afford to build a better future.
Fred Redmond, the highest-ranking African American labor official in history, is the secretary-treasurer of the AFL-CIO, the nation’s largest labor federation representing 65 unions and nearly 15 million workers.
Art
Houston’s ‘call Me Mother’ Exhibit Opens Today, Spotlighting Black Maternal Health
AFRICAN-AMERICAN NEWS AND ISSUES – DALLAS — The Health Museum in Houston today opens “The Call Me Mother Experience,” an exhibition spotlighting Black maternal health through art and personal storytelling. Curated by Houston’s first Black poet laureate, Deborah D.E.E.P. Mouton, the project originated from her own poem written during a miscarriage.
HOUSTON — A new exhibition opening Sunday, Oct. 4, at The Health Museum is bringing Black maternal health into public view through art and personal storytelling.
The Call Me Mother Experience will be on display through Feb. 28, 2027. The museum lists a preview reception today from 3 to 5 p.m. at 1515 Hermann Drive, with tickets priced at $5 for members and $15 for nonmembers.
A personal story becomes a community conversation
According to the museum, founder, curator and lead artist Deborah D.E.E.P. Mouton developed the project from a poem she wrote during a miscarriage. The installation combines films, recorded interviews, visual artwork and contributions created with community members.
Mouton, Houston’s first Black poet laureate, discussed the exhibition and her connection to its subject in an Oct. 1 appearance on KPRC’s Houston Life. The station described the project as addressing the unequal burden of pregnancy-related illness and death faced by Black women in Harris County.
An announcement distributed by the Call Me Mother Experience says the initiative will also reach community locations and faith-based organizations across Greater Houston. Those additional settings are intended to extend the conversation beyond a museum visit.
What visitors can expect
The museum says reception guests can explore the exhibit, hear the curator and meet participating artists. Reception admission includes general museum entry; refreshments are available while supplies last.
The featured image accompanying this article is an original illustrative concept, not a photograph of the exhibition or its artwork.
Sources and visitor information:The Health Museum exhibition listing; preview reception details and tickets; KPRC Houston Life; organizer announcement.
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Based on reporting by African-American News and Issues – Dallas.
Black Press
Should You Have to Pay to Hear the Gospel?
ST. LOUIS AMERICAN — Pastor Philip Anthony Mitchell of Atlanta’s 2819 CHURCH and Tim Timberlake of Celebration Church in Jacksonville, Florida, are at the center of a social media debate. The controversy stems from ticket prices for their “Street Preachers” podcast tour, with general admission tickets reportedly costing around $60 and VIP options up to $200.
For generations, the Black church has passed the offering plate to keep the lights on, pay the preacher, help the poor and carry the Gospel beyond its walls. But what happens when the preacher leaves the sanctuary, takes a popular Christian podcast on tour — and charges admission?
That question has placed Pastor Philip Anthony Mitchell, founder and lead pastor of Atlanta’s fast-growing 2819 CHURCH, at the center of a heated social media debate.
Mitchell and Tim Timberlake, senior pastor of Celebration Church in Jacksonville, Florida, host “Street Preachers,” which its official website describes as a “raw, unfiltered podcast” committed to spreading the Gospel.
‘A brood of vipers’
The controversy began after ticket prices for the podcast’s 2026 tour circulated online. General admission tickets reportedly cost about $60 before fees, with premium options, including a VIP meet-and-greet package, priced at $200. Critics questioned whether ministers should charge people to hear the Gospel.
Others defended the pastors, arguing that Christian events require venues, transportation, security, equipment and staff.
Mitchell answered critics from the pulpit last month, calling them “a brood of vipers.” He said the podcast is a separate, personal project and that neither his church nor Timberlake’s is bankrolling it.
“Now we have decided to go on a tour to take the gospel to cities, and because that’s not funded by 2819, and it’s not funded by Celebration Church, Tim and I gotta do that with our own pockets,” Mitchell said. “It’s why there is tickets. We have to pay for venues and security and productions and staff from our own pockets.”
Mitchell called some critics “ignorant” and said they did not know that a child was healed through faith during one of the events.
“And you want to complain about a 60 ticket?” he said. “So hate on!”
Worship service vs. media event
Mitchell maintains that “Street Preachers” is an independently produced podcast tour, not a worship service, and that ticket revenue helps cover production costs.
Yet the presence of pastors, Scripture and Gospel language makes the distinction less clear to some believers.
The official tour website lists all eight 2026 stops as sold out. Promotional material announcing additional dates promised, “Better ticket options. Same Gospel. Same move of God.”
Corporate prayer gathering
The language gets to the heart of the dispute. Some Christians argue that no one should be kept outside because they cannot afford a ticket. Others say the Gospel remains free even when people pay for the venue and experience surrounding its presentation.
The paid podcast tour, however, is not Mitchell’s only large-scale gathering. On Oct. 10, 2819 CHURCH will host “ACCESS — That Powerful Hour of Prayer” at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas. Admission is free.
2819 CHURCH has said 80,000 free tickets were claimed before registration reopened.
The contrast raises another question: What makes one Gospel-centered event a ministry supported by donors and another a production supported by customers?
Unfiltered preaching, youth appeal
Mitchell’s congregation, composed largely of young Black adults, grew from fewer than 200 weekly worshippers in 2023 to about 6,000, according to the church. Some worshippers arrive before sunrise to secure a place inside.
His appeal rests partly in an intense, vulnerable and raw preaching style.
“I’m preaching without watering that down, without filtering out things that we think might be too controversial,” Mitchell told The Associated Press.
That visibility has also brought scrutiny of his theology, associations, travel, security and the businesses surrounding his ministry.
But the controversy reaches beyond Mitchell and Timberlake. Christian music concerts charge admission. Seminaries charge tuition. Religious publishers sell Bibles, books and devotionals. Churches pay musicians, media teams and guest preachers. Money becomes particularly uncomfortable, however, when an event is presented simultaneously as ministry and entertainment.
Ministry vs. entertainment
Supporters should not assume every dollar collected becomes personal profit. Critics, however, question whether lower-cost seats, sponsored tickets or free admission for people who cannot pay should be part of a Gospel-centered event.
The Black church always has required resources for ministry. It also has carried a sacred responsibility to make room for people with little or nothing to give.
The sold-out “Street Preachers” tour shows people are willing to pay to attend. The free ACCESS gathering offers a different model. The challenge is preserving that open door as Christian ministry increasingly adopts the machinery — and economics — of popular entertainment.
The post Should you have to pay to hear the Gospel? appeared first on St. Louis American.
Based on reporting by St. Louis American.
Black Press
NCCU Ramping up for the 89th Ultimate Homecoming Experience
NORTH CAROLINA CENTRAL UNIVERSITY – CAMPUS ECHO — N.C. Central University is preparing for its 89th Ultimate Homecoming Experience, a week-long celebration. Thousands of students, family, friends, and alumni are expected to gather on campus for festivities including the Homecoming Countdown, parade, Miss and Mister NCCU Coronation, concerts, and the football game.
This Saturday N.C. Central University will kick off its 89th Ultimate Homecoming Experience — a week-long celebration bringing thousands of students, family, friends and alumni to campus.
This year’s festivities include the Homecoming Countdown, parade, Miss and Mister NCCU Coronation, concerts and the football game.
The number of visitors to the football game on Saturday, Oct. 10 is expected to reach at least 10,000 — O’Kelly Riddick Stadium’s capacity, with NCCU’s recent enrollment increase of more than 10,000 students.
The Eagles will face William & Mary after playing against the Campbell University’s Fighting Camels on Oct 3.
Students are already expressing excitement for the upcoming festivities.
“I’m excited for homecoming because I can meet alumni and go outside and party with my fellow eagles,” Digital Filmmaking junior Rhese Gardner said. “I’m also really looking forward to the Greek Bowl because there’s a lot going on.”
He added that even though he’s disappointed this semester’s Oil Spill was canceled, he’s still excited for the other events like the parade and concerts.
Here is a list of the week’s on-campus events:
- Oct. 3 – Homecoming Countdown
- Oct. 4 – Gospel Concert
- Oct. 5 – Coronation of Miss and Mister NCCU
- Oct. 6 – 10:40 Break
- Oct. 6 – Homecoming Experience Showcase
- Oct. 7 – Fried Chicken Wednesday
- Oct. 7 – Festival Block Party
- Oct. 7 – Late Night Breakfast
- Oct. 8 – Back to the Nest Young Alumni Mixer
- Oct. 8 – Old School Greek Stroll Off
- Oct. 8 – Hip-Hop Concert
- Oct. 9 – Step Show
- Oct. 10 – Football Game
The post NCCU ramping up for the 89th Ultimate Homecoming Experience first appeared on Campus Echo Online.
Based on reporting by North Carolina Central University – Campus Echo.
Black Press
Botham Jean’s Killer Granted Parole 7 Years After His Murder
MICHIGAN CHRONICLE — Former Dallas police officer Amber Guyger has been granted parole, seven years after her conviction for murdering Botham Jean inside his Dallas apartment. The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles approved her release on October 1, seven years to the day after her murder conviction. Guyger was convicted in 2019 and sentenced to 10 years in prison for Jean’s 2018 death.
Former Dallas police officerAmber Guyger has been granted parole seven years after she was convicted of murdering her neighbor,Botham Jean, inside his Dallas apartment.
The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles approved Guyger’s release Thursday (October 1), seven years to the day after Guyger was convicted of Jean’s murder, according to NBC News.
In 2019, a jury convicted Guyger of murder and she was sentenced to 10 years in prison for Jean’s 2018 death. Her conviction and 10-year sentence were upheld on appeal in 2022.
Geyger’s first parole request was denied in 2024, NBC Dallas-Fort Worth reported.
The Dallas Police Department fired her after the shooting. During her trial, Guyger testified that she mistakenly entered Jean’s apartment after returning home from work, believing it was her own apartment one floor below.
She said she saw Jean inside and fired her weapon because she believed he was an intruder, according to NBC News.
Jean was a 26-year-old Black man from St. Lucia who worked as an accountant. He was inside his home eating ice cream when Guyger entered and shot him, NBC DFW reported.
The parole board cited Guyger’s prison record in approving her release. According to NBC DFW, officials said she did not have a documented pattern of violent or assaultive arrests or convictions, maintained a satisfactory adjustment while incarcerated, and completed programs intended to help her obtain and maintain employment.
Jean’s family opposed the parole decision and had asked that Guyger serve her full 10-year sentence, according to NBC DFW.
Civil rights attorney Lee Merritt, who represents the family, told NBC DFW that the decision was deeply disappointing.
“They stood up again and again to ask that the full sentence be served,” Merritt said.
The Dallas Police Department told NBC DFW that the parole decision was outside its authority and that the department had no role in determining whether Guyger would be released. The department said its thoughts remained with Jean’s family and others affected by his death.
Guyger’s conviction and 10-year sentence were upheld on appeal in 2022.
A civil jury ordered Guyger to pay Jean’s family $98.6 million in damages in 2024, according to NBC DFW.
Guyger’s release date has not been announced. NBC News reported that the Texas Department of Criminal Justice will determine when she is released.
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Based on reporting by Michigan Chronicle.
Black History
Morehouse School of Medicine Fall Convocation Has Strong Ties to Nashville
TENNESSEE TRIBUNE — Morehouse School of Medicine recently held its 42nd Fall Convocation and White Coat and Pinning Ceremony, which highlighted strong connections to Nashville. Dr. Valerie Montgomery Rice, in her 12th year as president and CEO, leads the institution, which welcomed 355 new students.
Morehouse School of Medicine held its 42nd Fall Convocation and White Coat and Pinning Ceremony on September 18, and it featured strong ties to Nashville. Dr. Valerie Montgomery Rice is completing her 12th year as president and CEO of Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM). The school boasts 355 students seeking degrees and certificates in the medical field.
“This entering class represents the future of medicine, science, public health and health care leadership,” said Valerie Montgomery Rice, MD, and FACOG. “As these students begin their journeys at Morehouse School of Medicine, they join a community grounded in excellence, service and our shared commitment to advancing health equity. We look forward to supporting their development as leaders who will transform the health and well-being of the communities they serve.”
Infectious diseases physician and scientist Dr. Barney S. Graham, MD, and PhD, served as the keynote speaker. He serves as the director of the David Satcher Global Health Equity Institute, professor of Medicine and Microbiology, Biochemistry and Immunology at Morehouse School of Medicine. He is an inventor of vaccines and monoclonal antibodies approved for human use to prevent or treat RSV, COVID-19 and Ebola. He joined MSM in 2022. He served in various positions at Vanderbilt University for 21 years.
Dr. Graham told the audience to “Embrace the Unseen” and focused on three points: Do the Best You can with what’s in front of you, Do what makes you come alive and Do the right thing even when no one is looking. He added, “Anything you do to improve mental and physical wellness and promote disease prevention will reduce health disparity by reducing the resources needed for treatment.”
His remarks commanded a roaring applause from the audience, which included his wife, Dr. Cynthia Turner Graham, and the former First Lady of Tennessee State University, Mrs. Edwina Hefner, a close friend to the family.
Based on reporting by Tennessee Tribune.
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