essence festival
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The Hate U Give Aims to Create Empathy While Offering a Portrait of Why Black Lives Matter
The Hate U Give is a New York Times best-selling young adult novel by Angie Thomas that chronicles the life of Starr Carter, a 16-year-old who is from a poor, black neighborhood, but attends a fancy private school in the ‘burbs. One sad, fateful night, Starr’s best friend Khalil is shot and killed by a…
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'It's a Deliberate Attack on Black Women': April Ryan Gets Real About 'Post-Racial' America
“We are not post-racial—at all,” White House correspondent April Ryan told an Essence Festival audience during a panel last Saturday. “But when you dig into the weeds … it’s beyond race; it’s now going down to the black woman. It’s a deliberate attack on the black woman.” Ryan is no stranger to attacks. In April,…
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You Woke? Do the Work: Tarana Burke, Tamika Mallory and Symone Sanders Talk Accountability
There’s a reason Tarana Burke is so often featured on our #WomanCrushWednesday: the activist and #MeToo movement founder consistently does the work of advocacy and uplift for black women and girls, a fact she made sure to remind attendees of the “I’m Woke, Now What?” panel at the 2018 Essence Festival, as reported by Essence.…
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10 Observations From My First Essence Festival, the ‘Super Bowl for Black Women’
1. At some point during the two-hour layover at O’Hare International Airport on my trip from Pittsburgh to New Orleans last weekend, a supernatural force compelled me to glance up from my laptop and scan the gate around me. There was a shift in the space-time continuum that the universe was attempting to alert me…
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Ladies First: Essence Fest 2018 Took Over NOLA, and We Had FOMO
We wanna be down! While The Root’s own Danielle Young made her way to New Orleans from July 5-8 to party with our sister-girls at the 2018 Essence Music Festival, alas, The Glow Up stayed home to attend to other pertinent business. But that didn’t keep us from catching a major case of FOMO. After…
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Janet Jackson, Mary J. Blige Headlining 2018 Essence Festival
Secure your wigs and get your best shout-singing voice ready because the 2018 Essence Festival is coming with a star-riddled talent lineup. Queen Janet Jackson and double Oscar nominee Mary J. Blige will be bringing it to the crowd with their headline performances, but it doesn’t stop there. There will also be a headline set…
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Essence Won’t Be Part of Time Inc. Sale
Speculation Centers on Value of Successful Festival ‘Washington Week’ Says It Follows Ifill on Diversity Black Woman Promoted at Wall Street Journal N.Y. Times Defends Profile of American Neo-Nazi Tabloids Aside, British Take Markle’s Race in Stride No Escaping Devastation for Puerto Rico’s Reporters Reporter Spoke to Progressives Without Paper’s OK Star Tribune Says Franken’s…
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Trump’s Anti-CNN Video Has Racist Roots
Originator Apologizes, Then the Plot Thickens Diversity in Local TV Newsrooms Rises a Point White Founding Fathers, Diverse Progeny Writer Says NFL Network Owes Prospect an Apology After Series, Legislature to Probe N.C. Prison Abuses ESPN: The Magazine Seeks Diverse Storytellers Racial Differences Over Coverage of Mass Shootings Black Women in Diversity Posts at Apple,…