Op-Ed: You Will Not Find Respectability Politics At ESSENCE Fest 

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By Taylor Crumpton ·Updated July 26, 2023

While thousands of Black women flocked to the New Orleans Convention Center last week for the 2023 ESSENCE Festival of Culture, I reported on Black authors at the ESSENCE Authors stage. The stage, done in partnership with Mahogany Books, a Black-owned bookstore from Washington, DC, was my home for ESSENCE Fest.

Conversations emerged about the misrepresentation of Black love in literature and pop culture,

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