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The One Reason This Year’s Essence Festival Was Considered By Many a Complete Disaster
The Essence Festival was given a lot of comparisons to dumpster fires this year, and there’s a surprising reason why.
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Best Street Style Fashion at ESSENCE Fest 2024
From super casual to nighttime elegance, Black beauty and fashion was on display at the 2024 ESSENCE Festival of Culture.
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Hulu to Serve as Official Streaming Destination for 2022 ESSENCE Festival of Culture
This news comes not too long after it was announced that The Walt Disney Company would be the exclusive entertainment sponsor for the 2022 ESSENCE Festival.
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Jazmine Sullivan, Silk Sonic Lead NAACP Image Awards Music Winners
Jazmine Sullivan took home two awards, while the Anderson. Paak, Bruno Mars duo won for Outstanding Duo, Group or Collaboration (Traditional).
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Ever Optimistic, Essence Fest Announces Its Return to New Orleans in 2022
The live gathering, themed ‘It’s the Black Joy for Me!’, will be the popular festival’s first in-person event since its 25th anniversary celebration in 2019.
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Essence Ventures Has Acquired BeautyCon Media
The growing media company also kicks off New York Fashion Week with its annual Essence Fashion House.
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Let's Electric Slide Down This Newly Announced List of Performances at Essence Fest 2021
Y’all ready to bust out your linen suits for Essence Fest 2021? In February, we announced that Essence would be going the hybrid route for this year’s New Orleans-based festival—including both in-person and virtual programming. So, that means you can show off your linen suit on social media from the comfort of your home or…
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Cynthia Erivo, Andra Day, Whoopi Goldberg, Zendaya and Michaela Coel Among Honorees at Essence Black Women in Hollywood
This year marks the 14th annual Essence Black Women in Hollywood Awards celebration, honoring some of the most renowned and accomplished women across film, television and the creative industry. Per a press release sent to The Glow Up, the 2021 event is set to be hosted by Laverne Cox and recognize Cynthia Erivo, Andra Day…
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After Going Virtual in 2020, Essence Festival Announces a 'Hybrid' Format for 2021
The Girls Trip must go on—primarily online. After a year of lockdowns, we could all use a getaway, and miss our yearly turn up sojourn to the world’s biggest, Blackest and most bodacious family reunion imaginable in New Orleans (more than half a million people over July 4th weekend, to be exact). However, an ongoing…
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Essence Enters a New Era: The Legacy Media Brand Announces Its New Executive Team
The year known as 2020 was unfathomably challenging by anyone’s estimation; but as Essence magazine celebrated its 50th anniversary, the pioneering and enduring imprint and lifestyle brand, by its own admission, proved not to be immune. Now, nearly a year after the lockdowns that literally stopped us in our tracks, the legacy media brand shared…