Featured content area text formatting

How can I stop the text from automatically putting hyphenation in the featured content area? I've managed to get rid of it from the whole site by using one of your posts but it doesn't apply to this area. Also, I want to keep font color formatting within this area. I have some pink font dotted throughout the pages that I've using to link through to the featured content, but when it appears in the home page, it doesn't carry this through.