Join Monica L. Miller, Guest Curator and Professor and Chair of African Studies, Barnard College, Columbia University, on a tour of the exhibition Superfine: Tailoring Black Style, with an introduction from Andrew Bolton, Curator in Charge of The Costume...

En Vogue, the trailblazing R&B powerhouse, graced The Jennifer Hudson Show on May 15, 2025, marking their first appearance on the daytime stage to celebrate a dazzling 35 years in the music industry.

In Michelle Miller's final look this week at pillars of New Orleans' style, the correspondent delves into the centuries-old Carnival tradition of Black Masking.

The 2025 ESSENCE Black Women in Hollywood Awards—a night where brilliance, beauty, and Black excellence lit up the Fairmont Century Plaza like a constellation of stars.

"Black Betty"—a song with a past as rich and tangled as a kudzu vine on a Southern backroad. Let's dive into its storied history.

Giant Steps follows the 5-time Tony-nominated director and choreographer of Broadway’s Gypsy and Hell’s Kitchen as she elevates the possible with bold explorations of everyday movement, and African Diasporic dance.

Watch as Keke Palmer gets ready for the biggest night in fashion, the Met Gala. As Keke gets dressed in a tailored, white Vera Wang outfit inspired by Dorothy Dandridge, she talks about black tailoring and how Dorothy reframed America's idea of what a bla...

A gospel choir wowed Anna Wintour and Met Gala 2025 co-chairs Colman Domingo and Lewis Hamilton with a performance of 'Ain't No Mountain High Enough' atop the event's famous steps.

This year's Met Gala, at New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art, will celebrate the opening of the Met's Costume Institute exhibition, "Superfine: Tailoring Black Style."

Join Dr. Denise M. Murrell, Merryl H. and James S. Tisch Curator at Large in The Met’s Director's Office, for a virtual tour of the groundbreaking exhibition The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism.

"Something Good – Negro Kiss" is a groundbreaking silent film from 1898, directed by William Selig and featuring performers Saint Suttle and Gertie Brown. At less than a minute long, it is one of the earliest known films to portray African Americans showi...

Historical interpreter Joe Palumbo shares the powerful legacy of Caesar Robbins, an enslaved man who fought in the American Revolution and later returned home a free man.

Benjamin Banneker (1731–1806) was a self-taught African American astronomer, mathematician, surveyor, almanac author, and farmer. He is best known for his work in surveying the boundaries of Washington, D.C., and for publishing a series of almanacs that i...

Harper Watters opens up about his recent dance barrier-breaking promotion to become the first African American male principal dancer at the Houston Ballet.

After growing up in homeless shelters, Lia Valencia Key built a jewelry brand designed to inspire.