PINK GOES BLACK

Victoria's Secret Pink Finally Shows Love To HBCUs... As reported last year here at E3 Gossip, Victoria’s Secret Pink Collegiate collection had made plans to include HBCU's into their new line. As promised Victoria's Secret has indeed added HBCUs to their collection, which features pieces advertising FAMU, Howard University, North Carolina A&T, and Southern University, to its arsenal. The comfy, collegiate-inspired line boasts lounge wear like yoga pants, sweats, and hoodies, which are now printed with names of historical black colleges and universities. Looking to show off your HBCU school spirit with some of Pink's signature looks? The items range in price from $34.50 to $78 and are available at VictoriasSecret.com.

THE SEQUEL IS HERE!

After nearly 10 years, Sister Souljah releases the sequel to her bestselling novel, "The Coldest Winter Ever." The highly anticipated follow-up to her million-selling masterpiece, reintroduces the character Midnight and brings readers into the life and dangerously close to the heart of this silent, fearless young man. The new novel, titled "Midnight: A Gangster Love Story", follows the life of Midnight, a brave but humble lieutenant to a prominent underworld businessman, who you'll remember was Winter Santiaga’s nemesis and protector.

CHANGE HAS COME TO AMERICA

Barack Obama beats John McCain and becomes the country's first black president.
Barack Obama swept to victory as the nation's first black president Tuesday night in an electoral college landslide that overcame racial barriers as old as America itself. "Change has come," he told a jubilant hometown Chicago crowd estimated at nearly a quarter-million people.
The son of a black father from Kenya and a white mother from Kansas, the Democratic senator from Illinois sealed his historic triumph by defeating Republican Sen. John McCain in a string of wins in hard-fought battleground states — Ohio, Florida, Iowa and more. He captured Virginia, too, the first candidate of his party in 44 years to do so.

NOW THIS IS FRESH!

Kanye West = Creativity at its best! Kanye West goes Kermit the Frog on us with his Olympics-themed video for “Champion” starring himself as a puppet. All we can say is Hillarious, but peep the video for yourself and you be the judge:

VICTORIA'S SECRET PINK ADDS HBCU'S

When Victoria’s Secret Pink rolled out its nationwide collegiate collection in June, featuring the names and logos of some 33 universities on sweats, hoodies, football tees, and totes, the promotion didn’t include any historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs). This fall, the brand plans to include five HBCUs in the second phase of its collegiate collection.

The first HBCU schools that will roll off the Pink line will be Howard University, Florida A&M University, Hampton University, North Carolina A&T University, and Southern University. “We have agreements with the licensees who handle collegiate apparel for those schools, and this has been in the works for some time,” says Richard A. Dent III, chief operating officer for Pink. Dent adds that the company plans to include students from the schools in internships at Victoria’s Secret, and feature promotions at their homecoming events. Pink, a collection of loungewear geared toward young, college-aged women, first appeared in Victoria’s Secret stores in 2004. Since then, the brand has solidified its success within the parent company, Limited Brands, a retailing behemoth that includes Bath & Body Works and Henri Bendel. Dent says he didn’t view Reid’s Facebook group negatively. “We encourage people to be vocal [about our product],he says. “Victoria’s Secret and Pink’s mission is to have relationships with our customers.”

OUR FRIENDS ARE FABULOUS!

Close friend and celebrity blogger Ebony aka Lady Drama introduced Wendy Williams on her new daytime talk show. Not only did our gyrl do her thang, she looked Fierce! Peep the video below to see Lady Drama in action.

FOLLOW YOUR HEART, BUT WATCH YOUR BACK.

"The Family That Preys" is Tyler Perry's sixth feature film starring Alfre Woodard, Kathy Bates, Sanaa Lathan. This will be Perry's first film to feature white characters in prominent roles. The movie hits theaters September 12th.

Kathy Bates and Alfre Woodard star as the matriarchs of two very different families being torn apart by greed and scandal in the contemporary drama. Perry chronicles the inner workings of two families—one upper-crust and the other working class—that become inextricably linked by scandal.

The movie definitely looks good and worth seeing, plus it takes a different route from Perry's last few films. Will you be going to watch it?

ALPHA KAPPA ALPHA BARBIE UNVEILED

Toymaker Mattel has made a special limited edition collectible Barbie to mark the centennial of the oldest black sorority in the United States. The doll will be introduced this week at the AKA convention in Washington D.C. The Alpha Kappa Alpha Barbie is to be dressed in a pink and green evening gown, matching jeweled shoes and gold jewelry. The Mattel doll will sell for $50 through the Barbie Collector catalog and the Barbie Collector.com website and retailers. The sorority will pocket a percentage of the sales. The limited-edition Alpha Kappa Alpha Centennial Barbie, the FIRST Barbie based on any sorority from Mattel.

NOW HEAR THIS: CHRIS BROWN

Jive Records recording artist Chris Brown has had multi-platinum success with his sophomore LP Exclusive. Even more so after adding four new hot tracks to his re release Exclusive: The Forever Edition. But there is still more tracks that didn't make the cut; including "Back2Back" a song that was produced by Brian Micheal Cox. It's hard to wonder why it never made it to his album since "Back2Back" is a perfectly enjoyable R&B track in which Brown delivers soulful vocals.


IT'S OBAMA!

"The end of one historic journey... the beginning of another"
Barack Obama claimed the Democratic presidential nomination in a long-time-coming victory speech Tuesday at the Xcel Center in St. Paul, Minnesota. Obama said the long, hard primary campaign, now finally ended, should help steel a deeply divided party to do more effective battle against Republicans and their candidate, John McCain. "Senator Hillary Clinton has made history in this campaign not just because she's a woman who has done what no woman has done before, but because she's a leader who inspires millions of Americans with her strength, her courage, and her commitment to the causes that brought us here tonight," Obama said. "Tonight, I can stand before you and say that I will be the Democratic nominee for president of the United States," he said.

BarackObama.com

THE SEQUEL

After nearly 10 years since the urban-fictional novel The Coldest Winter Ever hit bookshelves and took the literary world by storm, Sister Souljah's Coldest Winter Ever sequel will be available in bookstores this October. The new novel, titled Midnight, follows the character of the same name, who you'll remember was Winter Santiaga’s nemesis and protector. Midnight is set for an October release.

This is what Sister Souljah had to say about the new novel:
"The sequel I have written will be quite a surprise I think. My readers will have to get their intellectual weight up!" "I have worked extremely hard to bring this one to the public. I love it. I was completely dedicated to making sure I didn't cheat my millions of readers from hoods, burbs and villages around the world. I am giving you something you can feel, remember, and use in your own lives." "All credit goes to God for gracing me with the talent and insight. I truly believe God is the greatest author of all times."

STILL ILL

While the title of the album has changed Nas still remains straightfoward on his new track N.*.G.G.E.R. (The Slave and the Master); as he speaks of the hard times African Americans have been through and what they need to do in order make sure the future is bright. Nas serves up what his audience expects... music with a message.


A TRUE PERFORMER

Usher performed his hit single “Love In This Club” on ABC’s ‘Dancing With The Stars’ earlier this week. Usher has been hitting the promo circuit very hard for his upcoming album release for Here I Stand (out May 27th).

YOU DON'T WANT TO MISS THIS

On the next episode of THE GAME things will definitely get steamy... On the new episode titled "I Got 99 Problems and My Chick IS One" Jerome questions Melanie's commitment to their relationship after she accepts an unexpected gift from Derwin. She decides to take Jerome to Los Angeles for a romantic weekend to prove him wrong, but her plans hit a snag when she finds out the Sabers are partying at the same hotel where she and Jerome are staying.

Derwin and Malik commiserate over losing Melanie and Robin Givens. Tasha shares her concerns with Rick Fox about becoming a manager and they end up having an intimate moment. Jason fires his manager and Kelly urges him to consider signing with Irv.
Tune in Sunday at 9/8 pm on The CW

CONGRATS TO CRYSTLE STEWART!


26-year-old entrepreneur from Texas was named Miss USA on Friday, besting 50 other beauty queens for the coveted crown.
Crystle is from Missouri City, Texas and she runs a party-planning and motivational speaking company, as well as modeling professionally. She says she wants to dedicate her life to international philanthropy.

"I want to talk to people about how to set a goal and achieve it, Because I just achieved my goal."


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