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Criticism of Essence’s annual culture festival in New Orleans reached a fever pitch once the event wrapped.
Caroline Wanga responds after discourse around the 2025 Essence Festival of Culture reaches a fever pitch.Â
Lauryn Hill performed in the wee hours at the Caesars Superdome during the 2025 Essence Festival of Culture.Â
Essence Fest authors' stage and bookstore featured notable Black writers and influencers.
Tiffany Haddish spills on her favorite supernatural movies with theGrio in honor of the upcoming 'Haunted Mansion' release.
If you are in New Orleans this weekend for Essence Fest, don't google 'best restaurants.' Read these tips from a…
The four-day entertainment festival kicks off with a show from comedian Kevin Hart on Thursday and ends with New Edition.
ESSENCE Festival organizers of the annual event heeded the recommendations of New Orleans mayor to move all large festivals or…
ESSENCE Festival organizers have decided to postpone the annual event to a later date for the safety and well-ness of…
Essence Fest 2019 is a wrap and your favorite celebrities showed up and showed out. Find out what Michelle Obama,…
This year marks the 25th anniversary of the Essence Festival and to commemorate this amazing feat in Black culture, Essence
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Next year's Essence Festival is getting a dose of music royalty from Prince.
theGRIO VIDEO - 'Baggage Claim' director David E. Talbert talks about his new film and says that the new wave…
VIDEO - MSNBC host Tamron Hall invited Essence magazine editor-in-cheif emeritus Susan Taylor to discuss mentoring young African-Americans...
VIDEO - Scholar and MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry spoke to civil rights activist Myrlie Evers-Williams about significant changes in the…
VIDEO - MSNBC’s Tamron Hall interviews Grammy-winning singer, and Essence Festival performer, Janelle Monae...
The gigantic, free convention center experience -- the complementary arm of the Essence Festival -- is nothing short of extraordinary.
Every Fourth of July weekend, thousands of black women and the people who love them journey to New Orleans to…
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - R&B singer-songwriter Trey Songz, who has collaborated with hip-hop artists Jay-Z, Drake and others, has been…