• The eight-volume African American National Biography compilation, edited by Harvard's Henry Louis Gates and Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham will bring a lot of would-be-famous black names out of obscurity. [WP]

• Mitt Romney shows he can relate to the black youth. That "Who Let The Dogs Out" song is so happenin' right now. [FOX]

• Foxy Brown gets no love from the judge. [6ABC]

• Sean Hannity fulfills expectations. [NH]

• The case for HBCUs.