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8 Oct

Eric Johnson Breaks Down His Iconic Photographs Of Missy

Eric Johnson Breaks Down His Iconic Photographs Of Missy
As of late, there are countless resources to make clear essential moments and figures excluded from schools’ lesson plans. But before the ‘gram, photographer Eric Johnson was doing the work to stop our stories from being written out of history.  Most recently, Johnson photographed Chloe x Halle for the quilt of ESSENCE’s 2022 September/October issue. Like for all of his images, went beneath the surface to inform a story. Johnson was sure to depict the sisters’ bond, an concept that got here to them while watching a video of the sisters dancing.  “The song was just so beautiful after which they were just dancing so close to one another. I didn’t even imagine [it]. I used to be like, are they superimposed...
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4 Sep

Sam Jay, Cocoa Brown, Kim Fields And Zainab Johnson

Sam Jay, Cocoa Brown, Kim Fields And Zainab Johnson
var playerInstance_DuwZG6K2 = jwplayer("jw-video-DuwZG6K2").setup({ playlist: "https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/DuwZG6K2", autostart: false, repeat: true, mute: true, aspectratio: '16:9', sharing: { sites: ["facebook","twitter","email","linkedin"] }, cast: {}, floating: { dismissible: true }, autoPause: { viewability: false }, displaytitle: true, displaydescription: true, controls: true, related: { displayMode: 'shelfWidget' }, advertising: {"client":"googima","tag":"https://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/ads?correlator=&iu=/21698916284/ess/VideoCelebrity&impl=s&env=vp&gdfp_req=1&output=vast&sz=1000x1&description_url=__page-url__&tfcd=0&npa=0&vpmute=0&vpa=auto&vad_format=linear&url=__page-url__&vpos=preroll&unviewed_position_start=1&v=DuwZG6K2&pmnd=0&pmxd=60000&ad_rule=1&cust_params=ttid%3DDuwZG6K2%26frnch%3D__item-franchise__%26environment%3D%26kwblock%3Ddis,Bui,Abb,Microsoft,Wal,Air,DIS 2,CapOne2,Coca,UPS,mcd,Targetbos,Buick,EFOC_Tar.,Toyota,dentsu,Johnson","vpaidcontrols":true} }) The 2022 ESSENCE Festival of Culture Film Festival brought together Black creators from in front of and behind the screen to showcase their work and discuss the creative process. On Friday July 1, ESSENCE Senior Entertainment Editor Brande Victorian kicked the festival off by hosting a conversation with a few of the Black women making big waves in television comedy. For more of every little thing you missed on the 2022 ESSENCE Festival of Culture, visit our official video content hub HERE. Sam Jay (creator and star of PAUSE with Sam...
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1 Sep

Elarica Johnson On Tackling The Topic Of Colorism And

Elarica Johnson On Tackling The Topic Of Colorism And
Photo: Lloyd Pursall Fans have been anxiously awaiting the return of the much-beloved Starz series P-Valley. Within the wake of our real-world pandemic, we’ve been away from the show’s dynamic characters for too long, including Mississippi, Uncle Clifford and Autumn Night.  On the heels of the drama’s record-breaking Season 2 return, spoke to Elarica Johnson, the British-born actress who plays Night in regards to the recent season, tackling the pandemic on screen and the prospect of getting boxed in to sexual roles. See what she needed to say below.  What do you're thinking that it was it about P-Valley that captured a lot of the general public’s attention? I feel it was the indisputable fact that it was something people hadn’t really seen before....
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