Essence Festival has served as a celebration of Black culture, creativity, and entrepreneurship for over 30 years. However, for 2025, the event sparked more critical conversations-both online and in ...

The most recent edition of Essence Fest earlier this month sparked several controversies. What needs to happen for it to rate ...

I vividly remember the very first National Fried Chicken Festival opening its gates in 2016 at a tiny park in New Orleans ...

Thirty years ago, what began as a one-time celebration of Black excellence has now grown into one of the most powerful ...

To celebrate the 2025 ESSENCE Festival of Culture, H&M hosted influencers, industry executives, and fashion tastemakers at ...

Presented by the Civic Imagination Project, "Stories of Us" is a living archive of Black resilience, designed to take up ...

Florida Courier contributor Lisa Rogers Cherry and her daughter, Chayla, attended part of last week’s Essence Festival in New ...

ESSENCE Festival of Culture celebrated Black excellence through music, entrepreneurship, and community—while responding to ...

Free programming during the celebration in NOLA provided tools, support, and access to care for festivalgoers trying to live ...

Richelieu Dennis, executive chairman of Sundial Media Group, which owns Essence, spoke about the mounting criticism of the ...

Columnist Will Sutton answers the question he keeps getting asked since Essence Fest: "What do you think should be done?" ...

Columnist Will Sutton has a few ideas about how the Essence Festival and Black New Orleans should move forward. " With my ...