Calling All Essies! We’re celebrating 18 years of the ESSENCE Black Women In Hollywood Awards by passing the mic to YOU with ...

Black American music is music of the spirit, a profound diversity of lessons to be enjoyed. Never duplicated but often imitated, its drumbeats are heartbeats of the inner person that ignites ...

New Zealand sales outfit Black Mandala has acquired worldwide rights ... 1926 novella that previously inspired Stanley Kubrick’s “Eyes Wide Shut.” The neo-noir thriller, helmed by director ...

The ultimate rock & roll bad girl grew into a magnificently bad woman. “I’m not any era,” she said in 2013. “I just go on and on.” That’s why the music world is in mourning at the news ...

A Polish woman who tattooed her eyes black in a bid to look like a rapper has been left blind in one eye, with damage to the other. Aleksandra Sadowska, from Wroclaw, went through with the procedure ...

Since there are a gazillion options to choose from and all kinds of sizing and sleeve variations, I tapped stylish women to hear about the black tees they own and covet. While reporting this story ...

and asked women who practically live in black pants for their recommendations. The recommendations below include trousers for the “proportionally blessed” and the smart-looking pair a ...

Leftenant-Colon, who was the first Black woman to join the U.S. Army Nurse Corps after the military was desegregated in the 1940s, died at the age of 104 on Jan. 8, 2025. (Leftenant-Colon family photo ...

Nancy Leftenant-Colon, the first Black woman to join the U.S. Army Nurse Corps after the military was desegregated in the 1940s, died Jan. 8. Here, an American flag is presented to Leftenant-Colon ...