Brown beauties Sanaa Lathan, Gabrielle Union, Joy Bryant, and Zoe Saldana showed up to the launch of the Rogan for Target GO International Line at Barney's. Don't ask me why Target was launching a clothing line at Barney's. It seems sort of self-hating.

The Kentucky Derby — the annual see-and-be-seen event where revelers wear silly hats, watch horses run around a track, and drink mint juleps (I'm guessing) — went down this weekend. Although I'll never quite understand the draw, Gabrielle Union seems to like it. Also there: Dwyane Wade. Not there (if we're going by photographical evidence): Star Jones. A morning when I don't wake up to DWade and Star Jones relationship rumors is a good morning.

The promised nude shots of Gabrielle Union and Jill Scott in Allure have arrived, although Jill's photo can barely be called nude, since she is pretty much totally covered by leaves and twigs. Check out the full shots and quotes from the article after the jump.

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Gentleman, be on the lookout for the May issue of Allure magazine. Gabrielle Union and Jill Scott, along with Angie Harmon, Ana Ortiz, and Zoe McClellan all posed nude for a pictorial that celebrates the "various shapes of the female body."

"Here I am, naked in a magazine at size 16," Jill Scott told People. "We are all beautiful, each and every one of us."

I expect the celebs to be airbrushed within an inch of their lives, completely defeating the positive purpose of the story. [EUR]

I watched the trailer for Eddie Murphy's new movie, Meet Dave, with a completely straight face. Actually, I might have been grimacing. I don't know, and I'm not going to watch the video again to find out. Let me know if you crack a smile.

• Gabby gets work! Gabrielle Union has joined Beyonce and Adrien Brody in Cadillac Records. [IESB]

• A judge just okayed a $24 million settlement to 10,000 black Walgreens employees who were discriminated against. [KCS]

• I think I'm going to have to see this non-racist tea "advert." [UKP]

• Here's some bright, sunshiny listening material to get your morning going. [NPR]

• The "who are the candidates distantly related to?" game has gotten really old. Does knowing that Barack Obama is related to Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie is related to Hillary Clinton do anything for you? [AP]

Jada Pinkett, with hubby Will Smith, was one of the honorees at Essence's first annual Black Women In Hollywood Luncheon in Beverly Hills yesterday. And were there's Will and Jada, there's…you guessed it, TomKat. Kerry Washington, a not-pregnant-looking Paula Patton, Gabby Union, Star Jones, and plenty of others were also in attendance. Check 'em out after the jump.

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The NBA decided to show the city of New Orleans some much-needed love by holding it's annual All-Star Weekend there. Lots of parties, lots of sports-related things (i.e. things I find completely uninteresting, although the Slam Dunk Contest was entertaining), lots of celebs. Jay-Z and Lebron James threw their 2nd annual Two Kings party, which, from what I gather, involved rich people convening in one large room. Evidence after the jump.

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Sanaa Lathan and friends celebrated the LA premiere of the soon-to-be televised production of A Raisin in the Sun, which also stars Phylicia Rashad and Diddy. The show airs on Feb. 25th at 8pm on ABC. More pics from the premiere after the jump.

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Gabrielle Union and Regina King look like they had a lot of fun yesterday at the 7th Annual Michael Jordan Celebrity Invitational Golf Tournament in the Bahamas. But I've heard that it's always fun when Gabby's around, especially for the fellas. Joking! More pics of the revelers after the jump.

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Queen Latifah, who rang the NASDAQ opening bell this morning with Mad Money costars Katie Holmes and Diane Keaton, is, like her fellow actress Gabrielle Union, pretty damned unhappy with the tabloid/blog culture. But Q.L. gets a little more aggressive with it.

"They are actually starting to piss me off. I haven't been brutalized like some people… but you feel taken advantage of. This year, if somebody prints something about me, I'm ready to take it to their ass because it's just not fair. I'm tired of hearing from my family members, `Did you say this?' When somebody calls my family, that's what concerns me. I have little brothers and sisters and nieces and nephews who are not so media savvy as me. They are not so thick skinned with this business, so these reports bother them. That's when I really want to go for somebody's throat, legally with lawyers and all. And I will."

[WI]

Gabby Union's back to blaming the blogs for her bad press. She told AOL Black Voices that she wishes blogs would focus on the work she does in the community as much as they focus on her personal life. Unfortunately, I think one of the only stars that gets anything close to that sort of preferential treatment is Angelina Jolie, and, even then, the scale is definitely tipped.

In other words, Union will probably need to come to grips with the fact that if the blogs aren't writing about who she's dating and what she did the night before, they're probably not writing about her at all.

It's been quite a few years since Morris Chestnut was on top of his heartthrob game, but, according to Gabrielle Union, he still garners quite a bit of attention from the ladies. While they were filming Perfect Holiday, a woman allowed her infant to fall out of the car she caught a glimpse of him.

She says, "Morris walks out of this building and you hear this scream, and then, 'Beep, beep, beep, thud!' This woman had been changing her baby's diaper in the back seat of the car. She sees Morris, leaves the baby on the edge of the seat and starts running after Morris. The baby rolls out of the car and we had to call the ambulance. She literally lost her mind. She was with an infant in pampers and just loses it."

Ah, those terrible, horrible, irresponsible mothers! They can be so silly sometimes.

It's been a week since Queen Latifah was supposedly ready to come out of the closet and announce her plans to marry her long-term girlfriend, but there's been nary a peep. Cold feet? Or was the rumor that she was finally coming out totally false? My bet's on the latter. She did come out, in a sense, for yesterday's party for Perfect Holiday, the Christmas film starring herself, Gabrielle Union, Morris Chestnut, and Terrence Howard. Terrence Howard wasn't in attendance — he was probably off getting his perm touched up or something — but Lil Kim and Angel Lola Luv, the video girl with the impossibly big butt that has mesmerized droves up people, myself not included, were. Pics after the jump.

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• Gabrielle Union wants movies with black casts to stop being categorized across the board as "urban." I concur. [CM]

• New Jersey cops? They don't shoot much at white people. [NJ]

• Civil rights activists descended on Wall Street yesterday to raise awareness for the "economic tsunami" that is the home-loan foreclosure crisis. [Reuters]

• The U.S. has been cheating on it's racism test, says the ACLU. [DNT]

• A group of nine juvenile and adult Australian males who raped a 10-year-old Aboriginal girl were given no jail time because, according to the female judge, the child probably wanted to have sex with them in the first place. [AP]