Gibson was born in Maine and moved to Colorado in the late 1990s, where they had served the past two years as the state’s ...

A Movement, Not a Moment *Twenty years after Hurricane Katrina and fifty-five years after the founding of Essence magazine, the 2025 Essence Festival of Culture—presented by Coca-Cola—marked its 31st ...

Andrea Gibson was born and raised in Calais, graduated from Saint Joseph's College in Standish and went on to become the ...

But one great stage, The Continental Club, is luckily as far removed from the wrecking ball as can be. Along with its smaller ...

This came yesterday, and it wasn’t with the usual cast of characters – namely Dan Proft and Amy Jacobson. Dan was off and Amy ...

Unlike some small towns that have tried to reinvent themselves as tourist destinations with artificial “old-timey” charm, ...

North of town, the Point Cabrillo Light Station has been guiding mariners safely along this treacherous coastline since 1909, its lens still casting its beam 15 miles out to sea in a beautiful example ...

The most recent edition of Essence Fest earlier this month sparked several controversies. What needs to happen for it to rate ...

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 ...

ESSENCE Festival of Culture celebrated Black excellence through music, entrepreneurship, and community—while responding to ...

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

The Essence Festival was given a lot of comparisons to dumpster fires this year, and there's a surprising reason why.