This story is featured in the 55th Anniversary, July/August 2025 issue of ESSENCE. Fifty-five years ago, ESSENCE published its very first issue—with the cover line, “Sensual Black Man, Do You Love Me?

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A recent book is here to remind us that Black love can facilitate healing, joy, resilience and so much more. Its multitude and vastness has been weaved together in the anthology "Black Love Letters," ...

On Feb. 13, 1993, Ayo Handy-Kendi, a community organizer and native of Washington, D.C., created the holiday to celebrate communal love and pride in being “unapologetically Black.” By Nia Decaille ...

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Some members of the cast of Tyler Perry's Netflix series are in happy marriages in real life, even if they're not on screen Paras Griffin/Getty ; Emma McIntyre/Getty Tyler Perry's series Beauty in ...

Black love is revolutionary. In a country that literally ripped Black families apart, its persistence through the centuries is an act of joy, resistance, and self-preservation. So it makes sense that ...

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For the first time, all four women in the Love Island USA finale are Black, signaling a bigger shift in reality dating television.