Hollywood starlets Nia Long, Sanaa Lathan and Gabrielle Union cover the December issue of Essence Magazine. The trio chopped it up with the mag, notably giving their two cents on the gossip blog *ahem*... Which honestly they are so disconnected from and misguided, but to each their own.

Essence: How do you deal with the 24-hours-a-day gossip that comes out on the Internet?

Gabrielle: Just last week somebody gave me a baby. This isn’t Perez Hilton or the White gossip people, these are women of color, specifically Black women who, for whatever reason, don’t like the company I keep.

Sanaa: She’s talking about the gossip sites.

Essence: The blogs.

Sanaa: That are run by Black women.

Gabrielle: And now because everyone is clamoring for celebrity tidbits, the bigger gossip sites and even mainstream entities are picking up on it. No fact-checking, no nothing. And in one week’s time, there were like five different dudes, a baby—I’m a homewrecker. In literally seven days. I can’t point the finger at the White media. They don’t care about us. Paparazzi are not staked out in front of any of our houses. They are not going through our garbage because they don’t care about us in that way. So when you hear crap about us, it is coming from our own community, which hurts.

Well, you know that your own people will tell you the truth and please know this is not Fox News or CNN boo...And she's right the mainstream media [i.e. white media] aren't checking for them, so if it wasn't for bloggers, people wouldn't know what they were doing, good and bad!

Yes ma'am, if you look busted, you will get talked about. If you look fly, you get noticed...like this lovely cover.

Read more @ Essence.com and pick up your issue!

This holiday season is giving us some great movies...This is also a Christmas movie called The Perfect Holiday which stars Queen Latifah, Gabrielle Union, Morris Chestnut, Terrance Howard, Charlie Murphy, and Katt Williams.

Nancy (played by Gabrielle Union) is a divorced mother of three who is so busy raising her children that she’s forgotten to take care of herself. With Christmas approaching, she decides to take her kids to the mall to meet Santa Claus, not knowing that her youngest daughter is determined to use her time with Santa to make her mom happy again. The daughter hooks her up with Santa, who is an office supply salesman and struggling songwriter. He ends up giving Nancy just what she wants for Christmas and so much more.

In theaters December 12th.

The Black Girls Rock! Awards were held during the VH1 Hip Hop Honors weekend in NYC hosted by Regina King and Gabrielle Union. Black Girls Rock! Inc. was formed to recognize exceptional women of color. This years winners include Missy Elliot, Common, Chrisette Michele, and Marsha Ambrosius, among others. Friend to the Blog, Emily King also performed!


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