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By Shelby Stewart ·Updated March 26, 2026 Getting your Trinity Audio player ready…
There’s a particular kind of memory that R&B holds — one that doesn’t just live in the mind, but in the body. It’s in the way a song lingers long after it fades out, how a chorus can pull you back into a moment you thought you’d outgrown. Verzuz, at its best, thrives in that space. What began
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Chester Higgins, Courtesy Bruce Silverstein Gallery By Tevon Blair ·Updated March 24, 2026 Getting your Trinity Audio player ready…
The early construction of Tuskegee University’s campus, designed by Robert R. Taylor, the nation’s first accredited Black architect, laid the foundation for a new exhibit at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C., featuring the institution’s chapel building.
Since late February, The Tuskegee Chapel: Paul Rudolph x Fry & Welch exhibition has
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Photographer: Malike Sidibe @malikesidibeStylist: Josephine Herfst @j.herfst By Karissa Mitchell ·Updated March 20, 2026 Getting your Trinity Audio player ready…
Annie Tagoe speaks with the calm certainty of someone who has earned her peace the hard way. Not the kind of peace that arrives quietly or all at once, but the kind that has been negotiated over time, through injury, doubt, comparison, resentment, and the long, echoing silence that settles
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Courtesy Getty Images By Shelby Stewart ·Updated March 18, 2026 Getting your Trinity Audio player ready…
There was a time when travel felt like a checklist—an urgency to see everything, do everything, document everything before the moment slipped away. But in Barcelona, I let that version of travel go. This time, I wasn’t chasing the city—I let it meet me where I was: open, curious, and committed to moving with
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(Photo by Leon Bennett/Getty Images for ESSENCE) By Shelby Stewart ·Updated March 17, 2026 Getting your Trinity Audio player ready…
ESSENCE Festival of Culture® presented by Coca-Cola® has officially tapped Teyana Taylor and her creative collective, The Aunties, as Chief Curator for its 2026 festival, scheduled for July 3–5 in New Orleans. This newly minted role positions Taylor to shape the festival’s programming with her distinctive approach rooted in Black
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By Shelby Stewart ·Updated March 17, 2026 Getting your Trinity Audio player ready…
Few characters on the new CBS daytime drama Beyond the Gates stir up quite as much chaos as Hayley Lawson Hamilton—the calculating outsider whose romance with her former best friend’s father rattles the show’s central family. Played by Marquita Goings, Hayley is the kind of character viewers love to hate: cunning, controversial and, by the end of the
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By Shelby Stewart ·Updated March 17, 2026 Getting your Trinity Audio player ready…
Few characters on the new CBS daytime drama Beyond the Gates stir up quite as much chaos as Hayley Lawson Hamilton—the calculating outsider whose romance with her former best friend’s father rattles the show’s central family. Played by Marquita Goings, Hayley is the kind of character viewers love to hate: cunning, controversial and, by the end of the
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Courtesy Victor Arriola @victorarriolaphotography By Shelby Stewart ·Updated March 14, 2026 Getting your Trinity Audio player ready…
The 2026 ESSENCE Black Women in Hollywood event is available to stream on ESSENCE’s YouTube starting Saturday, March 14: Watch Here
There’s a particular kind of electricity that >women shaping the entertainment industry are highlighted, affirmed and celebrated on their own terms. This year’s 19th program carried that same spirit: equal parts reverence, joy
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By Tevon Blair ·Updated March 10, 2026 Getting your Trinity Audio player ready…
When I learned of Reverend Jesse Jackson Sr.’s passing, it was the morning of my very first keynote presentation in Charlotte, North Carolina where I discussed the century-long relationship between civic engagement and student leadership at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU). I knew it was important to name the many leaders who made transitions from elected leadership