ESSENCE has announced the official lineup for the 2020 ESSENCE Festival of Culture! For the first time ever, Bruno Mars is headlining the weekend along with Janet Jackson, Ari Lennox, Janelle Monae, Patti LaBelle, Raphael Saadiq, Summer Walker and more. The Superlounge lineup for 2020 includes Jidenna, Tamia, SIR, Doug E. Fresh, Rapsody, Goldlink, D Smoke, Masego, Smino, Stokley, Tank and the Bangas, Umi, The New Respects and more. “This is a milestone year for ESSENCE and our community […]

via:blackchristiannews If you haven’t noticed by now, waiting is in again. More and more couples are choosing to put sex on hold in favor of finding love and a worthy life partner first. (And, we couldn’t be more proud.) Many of our readers have spoken out about their decisions to press pause on their sex […]

Actor Idris Elba covers the November issue of Essence Magazine for their "50 Things Black Men Love About You" feature.

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  Veteran actress Angela Bassett appears on the cover of Essence magazine’s March issue marking its 4th annual Essence Black Women in Hollywood Awards. Bassett is the publication’s 2011 honoree, along with Viola Davis, Jennifer Hudson and Loretta Devine. In the cover story “Unstoppable,” Bassett shows that even without the glam and glitz of Hollywood, […]