• In another crushing blow to Michael Vick, a South Carolina inmate is suing the football star for "$63,000,000,000 billion dollars" for stealing his pit bulls and selling them on ebay to buy weapons in Iran. [Fox]

• Aretha Franklin, Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Carol Moseley Braun and other barrier-breaking black women will come together to honor tennis legend Althea Gibson on the opening night of the U.S. Open. [IHT]

• Authorities deny that an arrest of two Detroit-area college-bound black teens for the murder of a white woman they have no connection with was based on race. [Mlive]

• The Florida congressman who blamed a same-sex prostitution bust on being afraid of the black guy he was soliciting, now has to backtrack and apologize to the local NAACP. What a tangled web anti-gay Republican politicians who are actually gay themselves and kind of racist too weave! [FT]

• Never go to a concert without your video phone. You could be missing out on YouTube gold. [NYT]