Static Text above blogrollo

Hello,

I’m trying to add static text above my blog posts. Here’s my index.php file. On line 7 is where I have the text by an echo. It works, but I want to color ONLY that line of text to be white with a black background. Everything I tried failed. Any hints for an inline color that doesn’t affect the rest of the post page’s css?

<?php get_header(); ?>
<div class=”art-layout-wrapper”>
<div class=”art-content-layout”>
<div class=”art-content-layout-row”>
<div class=”art-layout-cell art-content”>
<?php get_sidebar(‘top’); ?>
<?php echo “This is where I’ll post news, etc.”;
<?php
if(have_posts()) {

/* Display navigation to next/previous pages when applicable */
if ( theme_get_option(‘theme_’ . (theme_is_home() ? ‘home_’ : ”) . ‘top_posts_navigation’ ) ) {
theme_page_navigation();
}

/* Start the Loop */
while (have_posts()) {
the_post();
get_template_part(‘content’, get_post_format());
}

/* Display navigation to next/previous pages when applicable */
if (theme_get_option(‘theme_bottom_posts_navigation’)) {
theme_page_navigation();
}

} else {

theme_404_content();

}
?>
<?php get_sidebar(‘bottom’); ?>
<div class=”cleared”></div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class=”cleared”></div>
<?php get_footer(); ?>

Thanks!