Thirty-one year old Beyoncé Knowles-Carter is expecting her second child with  her husband Jay-Z,  E! News, reports.

There was much speculation that Bey might be pregnant, when earlier this month, she wore a Givenchy gown at the Met Gala that seemed to be concealing a baby bump.

Then Tuesday Beyoncé was forced to cancel her Mrs. Carter Show performance in Antwerp, Belgium, when doctors advised her to rest “as a result of dehydration and exhaustion,” and rumors of a pregnancy swirled again.

Recently on ABC she spoke about possibly giving 1-year-old Blue Ivy a sibling, saying she “would like more children” and explaining that she thinks her daughter “needs some company.”

Diddy and Funny Or Die, have teamed up to do a spoof based on the first black character to appear on the show. The spoof is titled, of course, ‘Downton Diddy’ and it pokes fun at the PBS drama.

The 5 minute clip boasts that he is an Abbey Head and has proof that he is, indeed, the first black character on the show. He appears in the clip (More like, infused….) interacting with the rest of the cast.

Check out Global Grind to view the clip

At the opening of the Cannes Film Festival on Wednesday, Gatsby director Baz Luhrmann told reporters that Jay’s involvement was key to the film, The Associated Press reports.

“We wanted the film to feel like how it would have felt to read the novel in 1925,” Luhrmann said. ”[Author F. Scott Fitzgerald] put music front and center in his novel. He took African-American street music called jazz and he put it right as a star in the book. People said, ‘Why are you doing that? It’s a fad, it’ll be gone next week.’ And [Fitzgerald] said, because I want this book to feel right here, right now.”

Jay-Z’s own tracks – “$100 Bill” and the Grammy-winning jam “No Church in the Wild,” with Kanye West and Frank Ocean  - are featured on the soundtrack and prominently in the movie. There were also contributions from his wife Beyonce, Andre 3000 of Outkast, will.i.am,  and Q-Tip.

“Jay said that music is a star in the film so I think there is a great African-American presence in this film and I am very, very grateful for it,” Luhrmann added.

As she continues to do press for ‘Star Trek: Into Darkness’, she speaks of various subjects including the backlash of her playing Nina Simone and sexuality.

She states, ‘I find it uncomfortable to have to speak about my identity all of the time, when in reality it’s not something that drives me or wakes me up out of bed everyday. I didn’t grow up in a household where I was categorized by my mother. I was just Zoe and I could have and been  anything that I ever wanted to do…and every human being is the same as you.”

The talented actress reprises her role as the iconic, Uhura, in Star Trek Into Darkness playing in theaters this week.

Read the full interview at Nicole Bitchie

Pakistani designer Aamna Aqeel has been criticized for her ‘Be My Slave’ fashion shoot that shows a model being pampered by a dark-skinned child slave, the Daily Mail reports.

The shoot appeared in DIVA, a Pakistani fashion and lifestyle magazine; and they were also posted on the designer’s Facebook page on April 24.

Critics have condemned the scenes as racist and have called on the designer to apologize.

Read more and view the photos here.

Source: the Grio

Floyd Mayweather Jr., is the highest earning American athlete for the second year in a row, according to Sports Illustrated magazine.

Mayweather is projected to make a minimum of $90 million this year, but could earn as much as $128 million.

The list compiled by Sports Illustrated combines salary, endorsements, and winnings to determine an athlete’s yearly earnings.

This year, four out of the top five athletes on the list are African-American. Number two on the list is LeBron James.

Read more here.

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Cities like Denver, Dallas, Chicago, Detroit, and Las Vegas ranked as the top overall domestic summer travel destinations by CardHub.com.

Riverside, CA, San Antonio, Miami, Tampa, and Sacramento ranked at or near the bottom.

Why? The former are — for the most part — easier to get to.

“This latest report compared the cost and duration of flights from the 30 largest U.S. cities to the 10 most popular international and domestic travel destinations, as identified by the Travel Leaders Group,” the report said.

“It found that Denver is the most convenient city for domestic travelers to fly out of – in terms of average time and money spent – while Washington, D.C. is the best departure point for international travelers. In addition, Chicago is the best domestic destination for the average U.S. traveler – irrespective of departure point – while Cancun, Mexico takes the top spot among international destinations.”

CardHub.com CEO Odysseas Papadimitriou says there’s high demand for consumers hungry for some competition.

“With the weather getting warmer and the economy emerging from the throes of recession, consumers across the country are looking for affordable getaways so we may keep our sanity without losing too much of our hard-earned money in the process,” he said.

“CardHub’s Best & Worst Cities for Travelers in 2013 study sought to help in that endeavor by identifying the most affordable departure points for both domestic and international travelers as well as which popular destinations will prove most advantageous for the average person’s budget and schedule.”

Read more about CardHub.com’s findings here.

The Urban Daily is reporting that the former heavyweight champion is getting his own cartoon show on the Adult Swim network.

Says Adult Swim, ‘Mike Tyson Mysteries is the new animated comedy series that has Mike Tyson taking the fight from the boxing ring to the street by solving mysteries! Mike’s armed with a magical tattoo on his face and a trusty associate by his side (a talking pigeon). But never fear, because if you have a problem that needs solving, Iron Mike is in your corner.’

This is a huge step in the right direction for the rehabilitation of Tyson’s image. He is still in trouble with the tax man but is on his way to making amends by staying busy with acting roles, television appearances and even doing a stint on Broadway with his own one man show.

Tiger Woods shared the cover for Tiger Woods PGA Tour 14 with the late European legend Seve Ballesteros, and top-rated player Rory McIlroy.

Even in the worst of times, EA Sports stood behind Tiger Woods. That couldn’t have seemed more true in the winter of 2009, when, embroiled in a personal scandal that cost him millions, EA stood by the face of its golf franchise.

“There is no change in our marketing strategy for the franchise,” an EA Sports spokesperson told the website Joystiq, amid widespread speculation that they were going to break ties with the star. “Our strong relationship with Tiger for more than a decade remains unchanged.”

But then-CEO John Riccitiello (who resigned because of poor sales in March of this year), told an audience at the 2010 Reuters Global Media Summit that both brands needed to be their best in order for them to keep working together.

“Both of those things need to be true in the long run for the partnership to make sense,” Riccitiello said, according to Joystiq.

The message was clear: Tiger needed to start winning.

Well, Tiger Woods is again the No. 1 player in the world. He might have well been on his way to winning the Masters last month, if not for the terrible bad luck of his ball rolling into the water after hitting the pin on No. 15, the subsequent errant drop costing him another two strokes. And after winning the Players Championship in dominant fashion last Sunday, Woods is the favorite heading into the U.S. Open, which begins Thursday, June 13 at Merion Golf Club just outside Philadelphia.

No one seems to be asking if he can win majors at 37 — it seems clear that he can. But with the video game industry in the midst of an economic lull, Woods’ performance at Merion — as well as at the Open Championship and PGA Championship, both majors — couldn’t hurt sales of Tiger Woods PGA Tour 14 game, amid rumors EA will skip making the game next year to put two years of development into a 2015 version. The tech website Kotaku reported sources said that EA would not produce Tiger Woods PGA Tour 15 amid widespread layoffs at the company. EA would not comment on the rumor.

The game has sold approximately 90,000 copies in North America, and 170,000 worldwide for the Playstation 3 and XBOX 360 consoles, according to the video game sales tracking website vgchartz.com. The highest selling version was the 2003 version of the game, with 1.64 million copies sold worldwide. This year’s game features the Legends of the Majors mode, allowing players to play in tournaments from the 1930’s. The promotion for the new feature was controversial but wildly entertaining featuring golf legend Arnold Palmer.

If you’ve never had the game, it seems there’s no time like the present: The standard edition of Tiger Woods PGA Tour ‘14 for XBOX 360 is available on Amazon for $40.

According to The Wrap, the ‘Forget You’ singer is currently in negotiations to make a return to the show after not being involved this past season. His former, and if rumors are true, future co-coach, Christina Aguilera, has already signed on the dotted line to be back this upcoming season as well.

As neither singer appeared on the past season, they were replaced by Usher and Shakira. Executive producer Mark Burnett had stated previously that artists would rotate in and out, as they are working artists.

It’s being reported that Aguilera will be paid $12.5 million for Season 5 but Green wouldn’t be expected to make that amount. Negotiations are ongoing for coaches Adam Levine and Blake Shelton, who are also expected to return as well.