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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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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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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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The D&I We Deserve: Ulta's Newest Diversity and Inclusion Advisor Is Tracee Ellis Ross
Two years ago this month, I gave myself a challenge: realizing that I wasn’t walking the talk I preached daily on TGU, I launched a Black-Owned Beauty Month challenge in February of 2019, restricting myself to only Black-owned cosmetics and personal care products for Black History Month. The results were, at turns, comical, insightful, inspiring…