A new podcast, Altadena: After The Fire, will chronicle the road to recovery in Altadena, California as this community navigates the aftermath of the Eaton Fire. The deadly January wildfire claimed 17 lives and more than 9,000 structures—including thousands of homes—across Altadena and surrounding areas including Pasadena.

With new episodes airing each month through October, join host and executive producer, Colby “Colb” Tyner, for in-depth reporting on recovery efforts in Altadena and firsthand stories of loss and survival from this historic center of Black prosperity and culture.

“It is very important that we do not forget this tragedy,” said Tyner. “As national news coverage has slowly dwindled once the fires were extinguished, we wanted to be a voice for the residents of Altadena and keep the rest of the world informed of what is happening.”

Altadena: After The Fire will examine the environmental and political factors at play as residents navigate rebuilding efforts—featuring insights from elected officials, community leaders, business owners, and survivors.

The first episode of Altadena: After The Fire is available now. Listen and follow on:
The Urban One Podcast Network
Apple Podcasts
Spotify
YouTube

Tyner is reaching out to community members impacted by the Eaton Fire who want to share helpful information and updates or to tell their stories.

Contact Tyner:
Email: ctyner@radio-one.com
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/colbycolbtyner
Instagram: @officialcolbycolb
BlueSky: @colbycolb.bsky.social

By staying connected and informed, recovery becomes a collective journey.

Altadena: After The Fire is an Urban One podcast available on The Urban One Podcast Network. Urban One, through its philanthropic initiative, Urban One Cares, is supporting Altadena residents by partnering with the Brotherhood Crusade to raise funds for families impacted by the Eaton Fire.

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A crown over a soccer ball. An eyeball that “looked cool.” Flowers.

Those are some of the everyday tattoos that defense lawyers say helped lead to the sudden weekend deportation of roughly 200 Venezuelan men who are accused of being members of the ruthless gang Tren de Aragua.

President Donald Trump ordered the men removed from the U.S. and sent to a notorious El Salvadoran prison under an 18th century wartime law that allows noncitizens to be deported without due process.

The proclamation issued by Trump argued that the wartime law applied because the gang is “perpetrating an invasion” of the United States.

Most lawyers have dismissed that argument and noted that the government has not produced evidence to prove the men are gang members. The men were flown out of the country before they could meet with their attorneys.

Tattoos are signals of membership in some Latin American gangs, with the facial tattoos of the El Salvadoran group MS-13 perhaps the best known. Experts, though, say tattoos are not central to Tren de Aragua. They also note that tattoos, hugely popular all over the world, are often nothing more than body art.

U.S. officials have said agents did not rely on “tattoos alone” to identify gang members before the weekend flights. But lawyers and family members say tattoos were repeatedly used to argue that the men belonged to Tren de Aragua.

Take Jerce Reyes Barrios, 36, whose defense lawyer said in a sworn declaration that authorities identified him as a gang member in part because of a tattoo of a crown over a soccer ball and the word “Dios,” or God.

Reyes Barrios, though, had been a professional soccer player and he chose that tattoo because the crown looked like the logo of his favorite team, the Spanish soccer club Real Madrid, his lawyer, Linette Tobin said in the filing.

She included a photo of the tattoo in the filing.

The crown looks very similar to the Real Madrid logo.

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