Mensa — the society for the smartest 2 percent of people in the world — has inducted its youngest member, Adam Kirby, the United Kingdom’s Express reports. How old is he? Two years and five months. Adam, who’s from London, was invited to join Mensa after showing his ability to read Shakespeare and comprehend Japanese,…

Serena Williams has accepted a friendly challenge from reigning U.S. Open champion Andy Murray to a ‘Battle of the Sexes’ tennis match, EntertainmentWise reports. But Williams — even with her five Wimbledon championships — isn’t sure she’ll come close to winning the contest. “It would be fun,” Williams told ESPN. “I doubt I’d win a…

During Thursday’s testimony in the George Zimmerman second-degree-murder trial, the defense cross-examined Trayvon Martin’s friend Rachel Jeantel, with whom he was talking on the phone when Zimmerman shot and killed him on Feb. 26, 2012. During the cross-examination, defense attorney Don West gave Jeantel a piece of paper to read for the record. But she…

According to an article in the Huffington Post, a Rolling Stone magazine cover story on Serena Williams compares her figure to that of a monster truck. “Sharapova is tall, white and blond, and, because of that, makes more money in endorsements than Serena, who is black, beautiful and built like one of those monster trucks…

Frederick Douglass will be officially remembered on Capitol Hill, the Associated Press reports. On Wednesday, House Speaker John Boehner led the unveiling ceremony of a 7-foot bronze statue of the former slave in the U.S. Capitol’s Emancipation Hall. Steve Weitzman, a Maryland artist, created the statue, which portrays Douglass in his 50s. The statue joins…

Despite the 175,000 nonfarm jobs added to the economy in May, the black unemployment rate jumped from 13.3 percent to 13.5 percent following two months of decline, BET reports. The national unemployment rate increased from 7.5 percent to 7.6 percent. Even more startling? Black Americans between the ages of 18 and 29 have an unemployment…

Sometimes people celebrate and de-stress with alcohol. Sometimes they can get a little … inebriated. We probably don’t imagine our politicians doing that, but most of them don’t go through what Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick went through in April, when the entire city of Boston went on lockdown as authorities searched for marathon-bombing suspect Dzhokar…

TMZ is reporting that Paris Jackson, the late Michael Jackson 15-year-old daughter, is OK after what unnamed sources allege was a possible suicide attempt. She was reportedly rushed from her family home in Calabasas, Calif., to the hospital Wednesday morning. An attorney for Katherine Jackson, Paris’ grandmother, told the website that “Paris is physically fine…

Remember Miguel’s onstage acrobatics gone wrong? At the Billboard Music Awards on May 20, the R&B singer jumped over the audience during his performance, accidentally kicking Khyati Shah in the head and throwing her onto the stage floor behind her. Though she and the singer seemed to be friendly and on good terms after the…

Lysa Terkeurst is a mother of three girls, but she made a decision that changed her life, her family and her community outside of Charlotte, N.C., the Huffington Post reports. Ten years ago, as she told the Today show, she went to see a choir made up of young boys from a Liberian orphanage. The…