Changing text color in CSS file

Hi guys/girls

Havent posted on here for a while so hope everyones ok. I have a .PHP file that displays news bullitins & loads a stylesheet called style.css which Ive included the code below (sorry about the length) however, for the life of me, I cannot change the body of the text, every other aspect, the background colour, the title's of each news piece can all be changed but not the actual text color. I only want to change it to white (fffff) ?????

Any ideas ?

TT PRE { font-family: monospace; }

body {
background-color: #000000;
text-color: #ffffff
margin: 15px 0px 0px 0px;
font-family: verdana, sans-serif;
font-size: 12px;
}

table {
font-family: verdana, sans-serif;
font-size: 12px;
text-color: #ffffff;
}

a:link, a:visited, a:active { color: #ffffff;
text-decoration: none;
background-color: transparent;
}

a:hover { text-decoration: underline;
background-color: transparent;
}

#main {
background-color: #000000;
text-color: #ffffff;
border: 1px solid #854900;
padding: 10px;
}

#menu {
background-color: #000000;
text-color: #ffffff
border: 1px solid #854900;
padding-top: 5px;
padding-right: 15px;
padding-left: 5px;
font-size: 12px;
white-space: nowrap;
}

#menu h3 {
font-size: 14px;
text-decoration: underline;
}

#header {
text-align: center;
font-size: 24px;
color: #ffffff;
font-weight: bold;

}

#time {
font-size: 10px;
margin-left: 6px;
}

#date {
font-size: 12px;
font-weight: bold;
margin-top: 15px;
border-bottom: solid 1px #854900;
; color: #ffffff; background-color: #000000 }
#subject {
font-size: 12px;
font-weight: bold;
text-color: #ffffff;
margin-left: 6px;
}
#morelink {
font-size: 10px;
}
#post {
margin-bottom: 5px;
margin-left: 6px;
}
#longpost {
margin-top: 5px;
margin-left: 6px;
}