Figures like Du Bois, Hurston, and Baldwin stitched freedom into fabric—not out of vanity but vision. To revisit their style ...

We've spent the last 12 months sleeping, eating, and sailing our way around the globe in order to bring you the 29th edition ...

Amari Starks and Jude Cuesta attended a screening of the film in Dallas. For the occasion, they curated outfits they felt were period accurate. Starks revealed on TikTok that he wanted to “ show out ...

Director Ryan Coogler talks about how a trip to Mississippi and a suggestion to shoot on IMAX turned "Sinners" into an ...

Director Ryan Coogler talks about how a trip to Mississippi and a suggestion to shoot on IMAX turned "Sinners" into an ...

Across nearly 50 artworks spanning the last 18 years, American beauty takes on many forms on Sherald’s canvas. It can appear ...

BMike Odums is using his art to amplify unheard voices and preserve New Orleans’s vibrant legacy. This story appears in the May/June 2025 issue of ESSENCE, on newsstands April 24.

His exhibition, entitled “A Maze of Power,” opened at the Mohammed VI Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rabat ... in which young Black men appear in poses most associated with paintings of ...

You may have seen my story about Thom Roberts' first solo exhibition, opening on Saturday at the National Portrait Gallery.

Appearing on a recent episode of The Breakfast Club (via PEOPLE), Coogler, who directed Marvel’s Black Panther, where Boseman played the titular and iconic role of T’Challa, shared an incident from ...

Black Panther star Chadwick Boseman was a generational talent, and we lost him too soon (the actor passed away in 2020 at 43 years old following a battle with colon cancer). While his work ...