UPDATE: 4:50 P.M. EST – Oct. 9, 2020: Harrison has announced that he will be present at tonight’s debate, as the event’s format has been changed. “No such luck, Lindsey,” […] The post Jaime Harrison May Pull Out Of SC Senate Debate If Graham Will Not Be Tested For COVID-19 appeared first on Essence.

When Black executive Mellody Hobson arrived on campus at Princeton University from her hometown of Chicago more than 30 years ago, she had no idea that she was already setting […] The post Mellody Hobson Makes History As First Black Woman To Have Princeton Residence College In Her Name appeared first on Essence.

Ta-Nehisi Coates described Howard University as a Black Mecca in 2015’s Between The World And Me. Two of his fellow Bison are bringing the book to HBO.  Theater veterans Kamilah […] The post Three Former Howard Students Are Taking ‘Between The World And Me’ From The Bookshelf To HBO appeared first on Essence.

“You don’t age out of your passion,” Radha Blank shared with Robert Townsend, her filmmaking idol whose Hollywood Shuffle inspired her, during their spotlight discussion for the Urbanworld Film Festival […] The post ‘The Forty-Year-Old Version’ Creator Radha Blank on Seeing Herself and Missing Her Mother appeared first on Essence.