Memorial Day is a day to commemorate those who have served in our armed forces. But there is an untold story that has been swept under...
Ermon K. Jones, civil rights activist and pioneer, passes away at 92.
Civil rights advocate, Edith Savage Jennings, came to the renaming of the Asbury Park Middle School to the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School
Black History Month celebrates Vietnam Veteran George Reed. George Reed served his country proud during the Vietnam War.
In ESSENCE’s first-ever “Black Girl Magic” February 2016 issue, the magazine presents three covers celebrating young black women
Scholar and author of the The Isis (Yssis) Papers has died. She was 80.
Chart-topping R&B singer Natalie Cole, who followed her legendary father into the music business has died.
Famed Harlem Globetrotter Meadowlark Lemon has passed away. He was 83.
Nas has made history at Harvard University
25 year old, Jasmine Twitty of Easley, South Carolina becomes the youngest person to be sworn in as a judge.