Felony charges against a Houston-area man accused of injuring a Montgomery County traffic cop in an apparent hit-and-run were dismissed last week after dashcam video revealed the officer caused his own injury. David Wargetz, 50, was falsely accused of leaving the scene of an accident that caused serious injury to Detective Toby McLaughlin, a veteran…

Source: nopparit / Getty Last Wednesday, Kendric Cromer, a 12-year-old Black patient from the suburbs of Washington, D.C., became the first person in the world to receive a groundbreaking gene therapy treatment that may cure sickle cell disease (SCD). According to the New York Times (NYT), Cromer began the first step of his extensive treatment…

Not everyone was entertained by the antics that took place during the Hot Water Cornbread gathering in Los Angeles. The Texas Hold ’em-themed gathering was a celebration of Southern music and food that boasted more than 100 Black vendors on May 5. The somewhat family-oriented event has become quite the talking point as a video…

Source: Canton Ohio Police bodycam Funeral details have been announced for a Black man who died in an Ohio bar after being violently arrested and telling a police officer kneeling near his neck that he couldn’t breathe. The funeral for Frank Tyson – who died April 18 after struggling with officers from the Canton Police…

A former security guard will spend the rest of his life behind bars for the murder of an unarmed Black man at a supermarket gas station in Memphis, Tennessee. Gregory Livingston was found guilty of first-degree murder after fatally shooting 48-year-old Alvin Motley, Jr. on Aug. 7, 2021, after the pair had a heated altercation…

Source: Screenshot You know—sometimes you can tell you’re on the right side of history just by looking at who’s on the other side. The wave of ongoing pro-Palestine protests at colleges across the country is a shining example of this, because while it’s clear that what’s being protested is the death toll in Gaza, which…

Kevin Hart and Katt Williams may not have shared the stage over Cinco de Mayo weekend, but they certainly went up against each other in a battle for laughs. And as fate would have it, the pendulum has swung, leaving more than a few fans of the “Pimp Chronicles” jokester to declare Williams’ contemporary a…

A North Carolina high school student was indicted on charges of kidnapping and assaulting two government officials after a video emerged online last month, showing the boy allegedly slapping and threatening one of the school’s teachers, authorities said. Aquavis Hickman, 17, is also charged with assaulting another teacher at Parkland Magnet High School in Winston-Salem…

While other rappers were battling on wax, Dipset rapper Jim Jones was caught on video taking on two men at the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport. And though the brawl left bystanders shaken up, Jones ensures he’s “alright,” even partying it up in Miami the same night. The incident occurred on Thursday, May 4. The video…