Black Star Press is a provocative work by Kelley Walker from 2005 that appropriates and manipulates found imagery from the civil rights era, digitally altering historical photographs of racial violence by overlaying them with smeared chocolate and toothpaste. The piece confronts viewers with uncomfortable tensions between consumer culture and America's painful history of racial injustice. Walker's intervention raises challenging questions about the ethics of image appropriation, representation, and the commodification of historical trauma.