The stage became a sanctuary for truth-telling and storytelling during the “Songs in the Key of Life: Navigating Identity and Dreams in Modern Fiction” panel at the 2025 ESSENCE Festival of Culture in ...

Know Hariyali Teej's vibrant essence, a celebration of womanhood, beauty (Solah Shringar), and divine love during the monsoon ...

I vividly remember the very first National Fried Chicken Festival opening its gates in 2016 at a tiny park in New Orleans ...

To celebrate the 2025 ESSENCE Festival of Culture, H&M hosted influencers, industry executives, and fashion tastemakers at their New Orleans store.

Jazmine Sullivan and Nia Long shared a heartwarming moment on the Beauty Carnival stage during the 2022 ESSENCE Festival of Culture — and it was as beautiful as you might imagine. Joining Beauty ...

Florida Courier contributor Lisa Rogers Cherry and her daughter, Chayla, attended part of last week’s Essence Festival in New ...

Free programming during the celebration in NOLA provided tools, support, and access to care for festivalgoers trying to live ...

Columnist Will Sutton answers the question he keeps getting asked since Essence Fest: "What do you think should be done?" ...

Columnist Will Sutton has a few ideas about how the Essence Festival and Black New Orleans should move forward. " With my ...

Titles are rented. The thing that will be my love letter to life will be the impact I had,” said Laysha Ward, author of Lead Like You Mean It and […] ...

The National Urban League celebrated the impact and legacy of influential Black women at the 6th annual Women in Harmony ...