"The system is not really designed for us, and so we have to stop coveting that which is not for us," the actress says in the ...

After all, to honor the Black woman is to honor the very essence of progress, culture, and community. When we lift her up, we all rise. That said, to further celebrate the beauty and breadth of ...

"It's forced me to ask myself, did it matter?" Berry asks in the documentary "Number One on the Call Sheet: Black Leading ...

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"Number One on the Call Sheet" looks at actors like Will Smith, Jamie Foxx, Angela Bassett and Halle Berry and how they got ...

Equal Pay Day is arriving even later this year (March 25, 2025) —and for Black women, the delay is especially ... male counterpart,” Richardson tells ESSENCE. “We have the same amount ...

At our 2024 ESSENCE Black Women in Hollywood Awards, Bailey candidly spoke about how her breakout role, The Little Mermaid, had changed her life, but could never compare to the most immense joy of ...

Taylour also recently showed off her baby bump while attending the Essence Black Women in Hollywood Awards in Los Angeles Feb. 28. For the outing, Paige glowed in a brown, ankle-length halter ...

Perhaps, art imitates life as a model for how Black women tend to show up in the world ... construction of self and femininity. Inspired by Hollywood as an incubator for reinvention and ...

but because historically Black women have a really hard time raising capital for wonderful businesses,” she told ESSENCE. And that’s tough, right? But my faith is so much stronger than my fear ...

As it turns out, Paige made her first major reveal at the Essence Black Women in Hollywood Awards in February. Video footage from the event posted to TikTok by photographer and videographer Joshua ...