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ESSENCE Festival (2018) Launches Interactive Daytime ‘Conference & Expos’ Experience

    May 9, 2018 (NEW YORK, NY) – Essence Communications today announcedthat the 2018 ESSENCE Festival® presented by Coca-Cola® will debut ‘Conference & Expos,’ an expanded daytime community enrichment experience with a new slate of interactive programming.  Incorporating talks, expos, roundtables, workshops, podcasts and more, the Festival’s daytime experience will be a convening summit that […]

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TV ONE, Roland Martin & The National Urban League Produce 2018 State of Black America

 (Left to Right) Panelists from 2017’s The State of Black America Town Hall taping presented by TV One and the National Urban League: Dr. Michael Eric Dyson, Georgetown University Professor and Author; Angela Sailor, Former Director, RNC’s Coalition Department; Paris Dennard, GOP Commentator; Angela Rye, Political Commentator and Analyst; and Moderator Roland Martin, Managing Editor and Host of

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Queen Latifah Added to List of Iconic Women at 2018 Essence Festival

  First-Ever ESSENCE Fest Performance Rounds Out All-Star Roster of Iconic Women including Janet Jackson, Mary J. Blige, Erykah Badu, Jill Scott, Xscape and More April 26, 2018 (NEW YORK, NY) — For the first time in the event’s history, a special performance by multi-talented rapper, singer, actress and producer, Queen Latifah, has been added to the all-star

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Award Winning Producer & Artist Team Up for BROH Conference in LA

  Grammy award winning producer Shep Crawford and Grammy nominated recording artist/producer Montell Jordan are back together again, but this time it’s not in the studio. The two, who together worked on several R&B music projects over the years, have now become “Pastors.” They will converge for the first ever men’s only “BROH Conference” (Brothers

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National Cereal Day: Dee Todd First Black Woman to appear on Cornflakes Box.

What we like best about having so many national days is the resurgence of “Unsung” heroes.  Well, today is Nationa Cereal Day and it’s our pleasure to re-introduce you to DeLores “Dee” Todd, first Black woman to  appear on the Kellogg’s Corn Flakes Box. Oh, and it’s Woman’s History Month. Read on learn more about amazing

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Birthright Africa The Ultimate Field Trip

Photo:  Facebook As we celebrate Black History, highlighting our rich history and phenomenal contributions to society, it’s amazing to read about the  different programs that exist around the world. Programs  such as “Birth Right Africa.” Recently, TCV received a forwarded article published in”The New Yorker Magazine,” about an artist from Chicago, Ashley Johnson, who had heard about

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Photo: Musician Bootsy Collins of Parliament at NAMM Show in Anaheim

The annual National Association of Music Merchants show, or NAMM, at the Anaheim Convention Center was jam packed with performances, panels, musical instruments and icons. Including the one and only Bootsy Collins of Parliament. Collin’s career rose to prominence with the God Father of Soul, James Brown in the early 1970s, and later with the

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