Wanga steps down a little over a month after responding to the backlash against the Essence Festival of Culture. Caroline ...

March is Women’s History Month, a time to honor the bold, brilliant, and relentless women who have shaped our world. But this year, the air is thick with an unsettling reality and that reality ...

Essence launches the ESSENCE360 App on Juneteenth—a digital sanctuary crafted to empower, uplift, and connect Black women with wellness tools, community, original content, and more. Welcome home.

Since the 1970s, we have inspired Black women to talk about sex. Now we’re doing even more, reclaiming pleasure, redefining sexuality on our own terms.