Edward Buchanan was the first design director at Bottega Veneta—long before the shows and leather goods that define the brand ...

In 2020, the U.S. government estimated that nearly nine million citizens live abroad, and of that, nearly 700,000 are Black Americans. Even before James Baldwin and Josephine Baker fled to France, ...

Sometimes, your calling will find you in the most unexpected ways. Just ask Maekaeda Gibbons. As the founder of Brown Sugar Babe, she initially had no intentions of becoming a fragrance mogul (and is, ...

ESSENCE Editor Akili King shares how wearing fun patterns and colors is helping her get through a tough winter.

The notion that all books celebrating the vibrancy and vastness of Black History are too boring and only of the textbook variety is long gone. There were a […] ...