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PHOTOS: 'Essence' Celebrates The Best In Black Beauty Awards 2012

HuffingtonPost.com | Julee Wilson | Posted 05.12.2012

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To celebrate the second annual "Best In Black Beauty Awards" Essence magazine threw a fabulous and inspiring event Tuesday night in New York City. ...

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Kevin Hart To Perform At Essence Music Festival

AP | Posted 04.24.2012

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NEW ORLEANS -- Comedian and actor Kevin Hart has been added to the main stage lineup for the 2012 Essence Music Festival in New Orleans. Organizers s...

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PHOTOS: The 2012 Essence Black Women In Hollywood Luncheon

Huffington Post | Julee Wilson | Posted 02.24.2012

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A handful of the biggest and brightest stars were honored yesterday at Essence magazine's 5th annual Black Women in Hollywood luncheon yesterday in Be...

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Stars Show Out At ESSENCE 'Black Women In Music' 2012 (PHOTOS)

The Huffington Post | Danielle Cadet | Posted 02.09.2012

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Celebrities rocked the red carpet in Los Angeles last night at the ESSENCE "Black Women In Music" reception, sporting the flyest fashions for the star...

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Octavia Spencer Among Essence's 'Black Women in Hollywood' Honorees

Broadway World | Posted 03.27.2012

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Essence's 2012 Black Women in Hollywood event will honor leading actresses Kerry Washington, Paula Patton, Octavia Spencer and Pam Grier along with ex...

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2012 Essence Music Festival Lineup Announced

AP | CHEVEL JOHNSON | Posted 03.12.2012

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NEW ORLEANS — Newly engaged queen of soul Aretha Franklin is headlining this summer's Essence Music Festival in New Orleans, and its other top p...

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Black Journalists Returning To Black Press In Greater Numbers

cjr.org | Posted 07.26.2011

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Mainstream journalism or a desire to delve more deeply into African-American issues. Whatever the reasons, with increasing frequency, African-American...

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Hollywood's Hottest Oscar Parties: A Roundup

deadline.com | Posted 05.25.2011

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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 23RD 5:30 PM: Host Zooey Deschanel, DKMS Charity Party Solange Azagury-Patridge, 340A N Rodeo Drive, Beverly Hills 6:30 PM: Art Of...

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American Am-ness

Pavel Somov, Ph.D. | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Acceptance, Am-Ness, Consciousness, Form, Mindfulness, Being, Essence, Becoming, Mind, Healthy Living News

Some thoughts prompted by the divisive (i.e. dualistic, dichotomous, all-or-nothing) rhetoric and the Chinese visit... The real threat to America (as...

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Car Porn

Pavel Somov, Ph.D. | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Car Porn, Karma, Wind Horse, Automobile, Car Safety, Car Design, Fuel Economy, Vw, Mind, Lungta, Seat, Form, Essence, Technology News

As a civilization we still want our presents wrapped up in shiny paper with a pretty bow on top. Will there ever be a day when we buy a car blind, not worrying about how it looks to us and others?

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For Colored Girls, And For Multiple Stakes

Wyatt Closs | Posted 05.25.2011

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The film, "For Colored Girls", is gonna have sista girl flair for sure, but there are a number of reasons to peep it and especially watch how it unfol...

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Essence Cover Features Iman, Naomi Campbell & Liya Kebede (PHOTO)

Posted 05.25.2011

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Amid controversy over hiring a white fashion director, Essence has put three black supermodels on its 40th anniversary cover. Critics like Michaele an...

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"Essence" magazine's true color

Irene Monroe | Posted 11.17.2011

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There has been a color change at "Essence." After forty years of having sisters from the African Diaspora as its fashion director, the new one is whit...

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'Essence' Controversy Shows Just How Far We Have to Go In a Conversation About Race

Sara Haile-Mariam | Posted 05.25.2011

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(Flickr / peiranliu)In 2006, I sat front row during a Jonathan Varvatos show at Bryant Park during New York's Fall Fashion Week. At the time I was wor...

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The Bilbao Effect: Architecture of Pattern Interruption?

Pavel Somov, Ph.D. | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Function, The Bilbao Effect, Form, Mindfulness, Architecture, Ouroboros, Essence, Pattern Interruption, Arts News

Consider Bilbao-effect (not necessarily, Bilbao-style) buildings not as pointless architectural excess but as existentially relevant topographical alarm-clocks for urban consciousness.

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Lo Fi, Bang & Olufsen, and All That Cheating Jazz (Part 1)

Pavel Somov, Ph.D. | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Uncertainty, Form, Jesse James, Low Fidelity, Propaganda, Mindflow, Lo Fi, Journalism, Sound, Certainty, Mindlessness, MSNR, Loyalty, Consciousness, Mindfulness, Media Signal-to-Noise Ratio, Tiger Woods, Essence, Pattern Interruption, Guarantee, Cheating, Mind, Hi Fi, High Fidelity, Promise, Noise, Healthy Living News

Informed consent: I've got this blog on my mind. I think it can explain some things about our culture of Low Fidelity and all that Tiger Woods/Jesse...

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Who's The Crazy One: Dealing With Psychiatrists

Eliezer Sobel | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Mood-Swinging, Personality, Responsibility, Ram Dass, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Psychoanalysis, Medications, Masturbation, Landmark Forum, Spanking, Pornography, Homosexuality, Larry David, Ethics, Essence, Cell Phones, Therapists, Relationships, Healthy Living News

My first real spiritual teacher, Ram Dass, used to explain that while one's true, essential self was eternally pure and whole, our temporal personalities might still need the occasional tune-up.

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Michelle Obama Called "Ghetto Girl" By Martha's Vineyard Resident... Essence Reacts

Essence | Posted 05.25.2011

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I am notorious for having delayed reactions. So when the whole New York magazine/Michelle Obama/Martha's Vineyard debacle came up in our morning meeti...

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Eric Holder Speaks Frankly On Gitmo, Crack Sentencing, Race

Essence | Posted 05.25.2011

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The walls inside the U.S. Justice Department headquarters are painted with themed murals depicting law and lawlessness (a couple being robbed at gunpo...

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Admiral Michelle Howard Essence Interview: Discusses Her Role In Rescue of Captain Richard Phillips

Essence | Roger Witherspoon | Posted 05.25.2011

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Who could have guessed that Rear Admiral Michelle Howard's first week on the job would play out like something out of a James Bond movie, gripping us ...

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How Michelle Obama Remains In Full Control Of Building Her Image

New York Times | RACHEL L. SWARNS | Posted 05.25.2011

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Vogue magazine, the fashion world's chronicler of first ladies, bedecked Hillary Rodham Clinton in black velvet and Laura Bush in blue silk. But not M...

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Marian Robinson, Michelle Obama Essence Cover (PHOTOS)

Essence/Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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The first granny, Marian Robinson, is on her first magazine cover this month alongside daughter Michelle Obama. Mrs. Robinson and Mrs. Obama sat for E...

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Essence Magazine Dedicates January Issue To Obama

WWD | Stephanie D. Smith | Posted 05.25.2011

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Essence may have scooped Vogue, sort of, in being the first women's magazine to put Michelle Obama on its cover since the presidential election, but t...

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Obama Family Continues Tour Of American Magazine Covers

WWD | Stephanie D. Smith and Irin Carmon | Posted 05.25.2011

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Barack Obama and family will be making the rounds on even more covers once the September issues of the monthlies hit newsstands. First, the entire fam...

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Jada Pinkett Smith's Beauty Secret: Sex

Extra | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jada Pinkett Smith opened up to "Extra" about dealing with her family's drug addiction, how she keeps her 10 year-marriage strong and her top beauty s...

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