For the Variety Hitmakers 2025 event in Los Angeles, Richie Grainge turned to Schiaparelli for her red carpet maternity wear. The model wore a sleeveless column silhouette cream gown with a high ...

As the art world flocks to Miami Beach for Art Basel, Miamians looking to celebrate and appreciate Black artists during Miami Art Week have a myriad of events where they can view their work. Art ...

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CHICAGO (WLS) -- Pigment International's inaugural Pigmented: Black Fine Art Faire will take place Oct. 31 to Nov. 2 at the acclaimed Zhou B Art Center, located at 1029 West 35th Street in Chicago's ...

In graduate school, I had a professor, a respected contrarian within his field, who was fond of posing the “Negro sunset” problem. It derived, as far as I can recall, from a well-known essay by ...

A longtime figure in the Sacramento arts scene has died. Charles Thomas, better known as Ground Chuck, passed away Sunday at the age of 56, after months of hospice care. Thomas was known as a ...

It’s easy to take the Chuck Taylor for granted. After all, it’s been a wardrobe constant for more than a hundred years, outlasting fleeting trends, emerging subcultures, and even most competitors’ ...

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This story was originally published in ESSENCE’s special 55th anniversary July/August 2025 issue, on stands now. When ESSENCE magazine’s inaugural issue was released in May of 1970, it stood alone in ...

It was a dark and stormy night, with thunder rumbling in the distance and flashes of lightning occasionally revealing the shadow of a man, a man searching for pieces of old helicopters and VW buses.

Two-time Grammy Award-winning musician Chuck Mangione, who achieved international success in 1977 with his jazz-flavored single "Feels So Good" and later became a voice actor on the animated TV comedy ...