magazines
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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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PageTurners: Where There Is Strength There Is Joy
Strength and joy go hand-in-hand, and this week’s literary releases beautifully celebrate both. In certain parts of the country, we’re knee-deep in snow and ice, and finding the strength to feel even the littlest joy is quite difficult. But we’ve almost hit the halfway point of February, the days are getting longer, and we can…
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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…
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Skee-Why? Kamala Harris' 1st Vogue Cover Sparks a Slew of Questions—Namely, What Was Anna Wintour Thinking? [Updated]
The ongoing pandemic has forced some necessary pivots for all of us—the ways we work, play, communicate, and create have all dramatically changed in the past year, for better or for worse. The fashion industry has been among those forced to get especially creative, finding new ways to pare down typically lavish, personnel-heavy shoots in…
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HBO Max Is Developing a Post-Civil Rights Era Drama Series About Essence Magazine's Origin Story
The essence of Essence Magazine is coming to your television screens! According to Deadline, HBO Max is developing a period drama series based on the launch of Essence Magazine, executive produced by the co-founder of the publication and Chairman-Publisher Emeritus of Essence Communications, Inc. (ECI), Edward Lewis. Shukree Tilghman and Jessica Rambo will co-write the…
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British Vogue Editor-in-Chief Edward Enninful Says He Was Racially Profiled by a Security Guard While Entering His Office
Every so often, we’re forced to utter some variation of the phrase, “This is still happening in [insert contemporary year]?” Whether it’s the consistent racism in an idealistic (and non-existent) post-racial society or the fact that we’re still experiencing “firsts” in Black history, we’re continuously reminded just how much further we have to go, despite…
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More, More, More … Fall Brings Even More #BlackGirlMagic to Magazines
If it seems like we’re running one of these stories every other week (or more), we are—and that’s a good thing. Bucking the longstanding trend of primarily white models and celebs covering magazines, we’ve been seeing a rash of magazines covered by black women this fall—and it’s a trend we’re trying to help make a…