Amy DuBois Barnett is not afraid of a challenge. The Brown and Columbia University graduate has led editorial teams at Ebony, Honey and Teen People (where she became the first Black woman to run a major mainstream magazine in the country). She was also the deputy editor-in-chief of Harper’s Bazaar. In addition, Barnett was senior vice president and general manager at BET where she oversaw their digital and social platforms. A bona fide boss, Barnett honed her sharp editorial skills here at ESSENCE as an editor in the life>If I Ruled the World (Macmillan). The page-turner is fast-paced and offers healthy doses of ambition, drama and love all with a sexy backdrop of the 1990s hip-hop, fashion and magazine industries. It is guaranteed to have your group chat buzzing!
ESSENCE caught up with the busy mom in between her book tour to find out why she wanted to release this novel now, the price of ambition for Black women, what Beyoncé’s skin and peaches surprisingly have in common and why she always envisioned If I Ruled the World as a television series.
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