The artists here are not just creating for galleries. They’re creating for movements, for healing, for resistance.' ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Essence Festival has served as a celebration of Black culture, creativity, and entrepreneurship for over 30 years. However, for 2025, the event sparked more critical conversations-both online and in ...

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

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

President Donald Trump threatened Russia on Monday with steep tariffs and announced a rejuvenated pipeline for American ...

Presented by the Civic Imagination Project, "Stories of Us" is a living archive of Black resilience, designed to take up ...

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

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

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