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Eni Popoola Teaches Black Women To Find Their Voice At ESSENCE Festival 2026 - Essence (opens the original)
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Blogger Eni Popoola hosted a communication clinic on Essence Fest’s Beautycon stage to teach Black women how to command any space with their voice. Eni Popoola knows how to command the room. The Nigerian-American blogger is from one of the loudest cities in the world, New York. She graduated both Harvard University and Columbia Law School, commanded the classroom as a 7th grade teacher in Harlem, and was a practicing attorney. From being the authority of vocal pre-teens and attending prestigious
Kandi Burruss Gives A Masterclass On Pivoting At ESSENCE Festival 2026 (opens the original)
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From music and reality TV to being a multi-brand founder, here’s how Kandi Burruss mastered the art of business pivoting. What’s next when you’re already a Grammy-Award winning songwriter, Broadway producer, and one of the most famous personalities in reality TV? For ESSENCE Black Women in Music honoree Kandi Burruss, it’s pivoting to the beauty business. “We all have a moment in our life and our career that’s a transition moment,” she told moderator Sophia Dennis. In a BeautyCon fireside chat o
Rebundle’s Ciara Imani May Goes ‘Beyond The Braid’ At Essence Film Festival (opens the original)
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In a film directed by Myesha Evon, Rebundle founder Ciara Imani May takes us through the process behind making braiding hair safe for Black women. What if the beauty rituals trusted by millions carried hidden costs no one warned us about? This simple truth is the foundation of Rebundle founder Ciara Imani May’s film, Reclaimed: Beyond The Braid, about the normalized harm Black women face with braiding hair. “As Black women, we’re not always prioritized, our health and our needs are not always pr
ESSENCE Festival Headliner Cardi B On How She Grew Grow-Good Beauty - Essence (opens the original)
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Cardi B talks to “The Naked Beauty” podcast’s Brooke DeVard about growing her haircare line, Grow-Good Beauty, for BeautyCon’s Passion to Profit panel. Back in April, Cardi B officially entered the beauty business with the launch of her first-ever haircare line, Grow-Good Beauty. But, going from Grammy Award-winning rapper to brand owner didn’t just work overnight (even though her hair masks do!) “I was tired of having chopped up hair,” she told The Naked Beauty podcast’s Brooke DeVard just hour
Black Hair Is Revolutionary At Essence Festival’s ‘Between Us Curls’ Panel (opens the original)
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Ava Pearl and Hermela Lamps talk hair memories, motherhood, and their relationship to their hair on Essence Festival’s Between Us Curls panel. “We all kind of share the same story,” said panelist Ava Pearl. On the live taping of Pearl’s Between Us Curls podcast at this year’s ESSENCE Festival, “there wasn’t a lot of representation growing up,” she told panel host and ESSENCE Senior Beauty Editor Akili King. Like Pearl, co-panelist and content creator Hermela Lamps realized early on her hair was
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