Smith Graduate Fellowship Fund, and Robert F. Smith Student Success Fund, according to an official release provided to ESSENCE. The scholarship fund will provide at least seven undergraduates a ...

Master P, the legendary hip-hop mogul and founder of No Limit Records, will take his final bow at the 2025 ESSENCE Festival of Culture® in New Orleans, bringing his remarkable, decades-long ...

And this year, for the first time in NFL history, the essence of Black New Orleans – its soul, its resilience, its artistic legacy will take center stage as New Orleans artist Tahj “Queen Tahj ...

Young, Gifted & Black: From left: Ariah Jackson, Janira Wright, RyLon Smith, Amariah Alexander and Jalani Williams, of POSH Performing Arts Experience. Photographed by Edward Buckles Jr. Styled by ...

Hindsight is always 20/20. This is especially true for Will Smith, who recently admitted to feeling jealous of his wife Jada Pinkett Smith’s friendship with the late rap icon Tupac Shakur.

We all know Yandy Smith is all about “securing that bag ... We caught up with Yandy offstage at ESSENCE Beauty Carnival to get the scoop on her beauty habits and must-haves.

“Speaking amongst your peers and women you watch and emulate is the hardest,” Sabrina Elba tells ESSENCE. “I think it is because we respect the people around us the most; they are the women ...