In honor of Women's History Month, ESSENCE celebrates 13 Black women who have forever-changed the beauty industry in the past 100 years.

The new campaign honors the brilliance, leadership, and cultural impact of Black women.

Founder Tomi Talabi brought together an intimate group of industry change makers to celebrate the inaugural Vanguard 50.

The tech-based contest is designed to empower black girls and women to redefine Black beauty. Black Girls Code (BGC) and The Doux are teaming up to launch the Black Beauty AI Challenge, a contest that ...

Beauty in Black is an American drama TV show that premiered on Netflix on October 24, 2024. On September 11, 2025, the first part of season 2 premiered.

The first eight episodes of the Netflix drama — which stars Taylor Polidore Williams as Kimmie, a former stripper who gets into a relationship with one of her former clients, Horace (Ricco Ross) — ...

As we enter 2025, reports Essence, Black-owned beauty brands find themselves at a crossroads, facing significant challenges exacerbated by looming tariffs and persistent systemic barriers. The ...

Tyler Perry's gone full sicko mode with Beauty in Black, a soapy thriller about an exotic dancer who infiltrates the lives of the Bellarie beauty dynasty and disrupts its connections to a seedy ...

Diarrha N’Diaye-Mbaye is making Black beauty history. Diarrha N'Diaye-Mbaye grew up admiring the elegance, beauty and allure of the Black women she would see coming into her mother's Harlem hair ...