Essence Fest co-headliner Victoria Monét links up with 2000s Queen Mya at star-studded party in New Orleans, Louisiana
Click inside to check out photos from the elegant brunch that celebrated Black people in hair, make up and beauty spaces!
The 2024 ESSENCE Festival Of Culture™ Presented By Coca-Cola® is continuing and all your fave celebs are sizzling in NOLA. New Orleans’ Ernest N. Memorial Convention Center and Caesars Superdome have been flooded with stars connecting with fans while celebrating 30 years of Black joy and achievement. Seen on the ESSENCE fest scene was […]
Aunties attending an annual fest should already be icing their knees ahead of some “azz” backing up in New Orleans. ESSENCE Festival is officially taking over for the ’99 and the 2000 by announcing a Cash Money Millionaires reunion. A press release reports that during the 30th ESSENCE Festival of Culture, “Birdman & Friends Presents […]
Compilation of epic events, experiences, and entertainment at the 2023 Essence Festival in New Orleans, Louisiana
An affair that took place in New Orleans recently paid tribute to Black female bosses in entertainment and business. Shea Moisture’s Women En Blanc Honors & Smirnoff’s All-White affair went down during ESSENCE Fest weekend and celebrated the leadership and global accomplishments of women. Over 300 stunners showed up dressed in all-white to honor luminaries […]
The final day of ESSENCE Fest was on fire thanks to a certain H-Town hottie who shook a healthy heaping of her hot girl glutes. Megan Thee Stallion closed out the 2023 ESSENCE Festival of Culture™ presented by Coca-Cola® by running through a medley of hits ranging from her 2018 Tina Snow EP tracks to […]
The 2023 ESSENCE Festival of Culture™ presented by Coca-Cola® is continuing and celebs are sizzling in NOLA. Temperatures in New Orleans are sky-high but the crowds keep coming to see A-listers who represent the best in Blackness spanning from music to television to politics. The Ernest N. Memorial Convention Center has been flooded with stars […]
We’re happy Janelle Monáe is “much happier” when she’s showing skin, but she sparked some outrage when she flashed the crowd during her performance at Essence Fest on Friday night. The free-spirited singer broke the internet with her barely-there outfits to usher in the Age of Pleasure with her new album. After the “Lipstick Lover” […]
Touch, The Black Breast Cancer Alliance recently hosted an exclusive experience to drive the impactful and important conversation surrounding Black breast cancer and clinical trial participation. and BOSSIP was in attendance. During Essence Fest, Ricki Fairley, Triple Negative Breast Cancer Survivor and Co-Founder of Touch BBCA, filled a room with fellow survivors also knowns as Breasties to reflect on their individual experiences battling the disease and being victorious.
Ahead of Vice President Kamala Harris being interviewed by KeKe Palmer at the at New Orleans' Ernest N. Morial Convention Center members of President Biden's Cabinet participated in a special sit-down on the Wealth and Power Stage. Dubbed the "Global Black Economic Forum – A Sit Down with President Biden’s Cabinet", it featured Sec. Pete Buttigieg. Ahead of the panel, Sec. Buttigieg told BOSSIP about his new "Reconnecting Communities" program which addresses infrastructure planning mistakes of the past and offers a way for communities to rebuild. The program in part centers around transportation inequity in America, in particular in Black and brown communities where lack of transportation meant a lack of career and economic advancement.
Essence Festival of Culture presented by Coca-Cola is back and the lineup is crazy! Here’s your ultimate guide to one of the best events of the summer that’s currently heating up New Orleans! Essence Festival began in 1995 as a one-time event to celebrate Essence Magazine’s 25th anniversary and grew to be what […]