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Essence Magazine Takes Heat over Hiring White Editor

Uh oh Essence! You done did it now.  Obviously, black women have been patronizing Essence magazine because it was the black women’s magazine.  Now you’ve gone and got yourself a white woman to sit at the helm of the fashion pages and tell a black woman what’s right for her image? Her fierceness?  Her swag?  [...]

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Essence Magazine Can’t Live Without Mikki Taylor?

Mikki Taylor was more instrumental to Essence’s fashion department than they realized.  She has made her announcement that she will be retiring from Essence and somehow her exit has ushered in a litany of speculation that the magazine may be folding.  Taylor probably didn’t think that her retiring would cause such a stir. Sphere: Related [...]

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Photos: Dishin’ Dirt on Bow Wow, Ciara, Pleasure P, Lil’ Wayne and more…

What’s up y’all?!  Here is the dirt… D.C. was the place to be this past weekend.  For the 8th year in a row Big Tigger’s Celebrity Weekend was a HUGE success.  The event was designed to raise funds and awareness for HIV/AIDS.  The weekend included a silent auction, celebrity basketball game and a youth sports [...]

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