If you think the ESSENCE Authors Stage is just for the quiet crowd, think again. This is where words move the culture—and sometimes the crowd too. Whether you’re a lit lover, a memoir junkie or just ...
IN HONOR OF ESSENCE’S 55TH ANNIVERSARY, ETERNAL AURA BRINGS TOGETHER THE ARCHITECTS OF BLACK STYLE AND THE NEXT WAVE OF GLOBAL FASHION DURING SEPTEMBER 2025 NEW YORK FASHION WEEK. The event will also ...
Now that the 2025 ESSENCE Festival of Culture® presented by Coca-Cola® has wrapped, and we have all taken a deep breath, read the posts and comments, and had time to digest the magnitude of the ...
How a curated evening at the Art Hotel became a blueprint for turning Lagos Fashion Week's billion-dollar opportunity into ...
There’s a particular kind of excellence that happens when Black women stop waiting for permission and just build. And there’s something equally as excellent about refusing to wait for validation from ...
At midnight Friday during the 2025 Essence Festival of Culture in the Caesars Superdome, hitmaking R&B producer, songwriter and singer Kenneth “Babyface” Edmonds confessed that he was "tired as hell.” ...