• Let's face it, Will Smith saves the world like nobody's business. [AMC]

• The displaced half of Floetry is moving on. [SR]

• Anika Noni Rose won the coveted female lead in Debbie Allen's all-black production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. [CM]

• Pharmaceutical companies are working on more than 700 medications designed to combat diseases that disproportionately affect blacks. Bittersweet. [MNT]

• Target throws a few bucks in the direction of some Midwesterners who say the company uses racial discrimination in hiring. [KCI]