ESSENCE Ventures, the parent company of ESSENCE, and the Office of the Chicago City Treasurer, led by Treasurer Melissa Conyears-Ervin, announced a landmark partnership to…

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For more than three decades, ESSENCE Magazine and the Essence Festival of Culture have been a beacon of Black excellence, a cultural celebration of who…