Hip Hop Mogul and NOLA native Master P taking a bow from music after Essence Fest 2025 performance ...

Master P, the legendary hip-hop mogul and founder of No Limit Records, will take his final bow at the 2025 ESSENCE Festival of Culture® in New Orleans, bringing his remarkable, decades-long ...

New Orleans shines as the focus of Essence Magazine's May, June issue marking 20 years since Hurricane Katrina. The covers of the magazine serve as a heartfelt love letter to the Crescent City ...

This summer, the world is once again invited to meet ESSENCE where it all began: in New Orleans. This is a movement. This is culture. This is Made Like This.

Beverly Stanton McKenna is a force. The Tennessee State University graduate is publisher and executive editor of The New Orleans Tribune and co-founder (along with her husband, Dwight McKenna, M.D ...

Watching thousands sway together, our spirits intertwined, I realized then that something special lived here—not merely in Frankie Beverly and Maze’s music, but in your essence, New Orleans.

The Essence Festival of Culture (EFOC) provides an immersive Black experience and economic boom for New Orleans. According to Axios, the city estimates that the Essence Festival has an economic ...

IN NEW ORLEANS, YOU KNOW, THE BAR AND RESTAURANT INDUSTRY REALLY SUFFERS. WELL, WHEN WE COME INTO, UM, JULY, IN ESSENCE, IS HERE. IT TAKES CARE. A LOT OF THINGS THAT WE DIDN’T HAVE AS BOTH ...

The 2024 Essence Festival is here, and music icon Janet Jackson has expressed her deep affection for the host city, New Orleans. Jackson, who is set to perform Sunday night at the festival ...

Vice President Kamala Harris called on an overflowing crowd in New Orleans to make sure they vote this fall because “this is probably the most significant election of our lifetime.” In her ...

NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — Friday is the first full day of the Essence Festival of Culture holding its 30th anniversary. It’s a celebration of Black culture that, for over three decades, has brought ...

YOU MAY HAVE SEEN HIM ONLINE OR AT THE STORE. THESE ESSENCE FESTIVAL MAGAZINE COVERS THAT TRULY SHOWCASE NEW ORLEANS CULTURE. ESSENCE OFFICIALS SAY. UPON RELEASE, MOST STORES IMMEDIATELY SOLD OUT.