After the Civil War, even as Reconstruction was failing across the United States, Black Americans in the South faced a choice ...

Every year since 1995, ESSENCE’s Festival of Culture has called upon Black artists across generations to capture its energy, spirit and significance—turning each poster into a piece of living history.

There was a palpable sense of excitement — the kind that moves you deep within — at New Jersey’s MetLife Stadium on Saturday, Aug. 9. Just before My Chemical Romance took the stage for their ‘Long ...

After spending four hours at a Ghost concert without my cellphone, I realized the elder generations might be onto something ...

Along with a history of racist wartime propaganda, other forms of hateful posters and political flyers were persistent throughout the 20th century. The infamous white supremacist group Ku Klux Klan ...