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The mega-fight that the world has been waiting for inches closer to becoming a reality now that Manny “Pacquiao and his promoter Top Rank have agreed to terms for a May 2 bout” with Floyd Mayweather Jr., according to ESPN.com. The deal is still being hammered out, ESPN notes, and Mayweather has not yet agreed…

It’s been less than a week since U.S. News & World Report first let us know that recently departed Fox News host and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee was singling out Beyoncé, of all people, for criticism as he explores an outsider-ish 2016 presidential run as the socially conservative alternative to the rest of the…

Atlanta fathers Kaleb and Kordale Lewis didn’t expect to become famous a year ago when they posted a photo of them doing their daughters’ hair, but the photo went viral, and the couple and their three children are now starring in a Nikon commercial as part of the camera company’s I Am Generation Image campaign. “What…

Five months ago Fort Lauderdale, Fla., police arrested Jamal Rutledge—a juvenile defendant—on probation-violation charges involving criminal mischief and burglary. Police took him back to the precinct, where Officer Franklin Foulks began processing Rutledge’s arrest. Foulks suddenly collapsed, but instead of bolting to freedom, Rutledge came to the officer’s aid. Now Rutledge and three officers will…

A Memphis, Tenn., mother and her boyfriend are both in jail after the boyfriend reportedly beat her 3-year-old son so badly that he broke his thighbone, dislocated a vertebra and bruised his lung, Eyewitness 3 News reports. According to the news station, Anthony Gulledge, 30, arrived home Saturday to find that the little boy had…

Karen Pittman is an actress whose star is on the rise. She is currently burning up the Broadway stage in Ayad Akhtar’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play Disgraced. The play examines the precariousness of power, identity, prestige and race relations in contemporary New York City. The brave narrative tackles subjects like Islamophobia, cultural appropriation, and interracial personal…

During an interview with People magazine, Mike Huckabee—the former Arkansas governor and Republican presidential-primary candidate—described how he is flabbergasted that President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama allow their daughters to be fans of Beyoncé, the New York Daily News reports. “I don’t understand how on one hand they can be such doting parents…

When New York City occupational therapist Debra Fisher discovered that one of her special needs students, 13-year-old Aaron Philip, had a talent for video animation, Fisher coordinated a fundraiser to help Aaron create a multimedia project that would help other special needs kids. Fisher sent emails to other staffers at Public School 333 in Manhattan…