And the Obamas posed for an intimate portrait published on the cover of the October issue of Essence, a lifestyle magazine directed toward black women.
In a video interview for the November issue of Essence magazine, the actress shared some of the challenges she and husband Dwayne Wade often have while raising his sons Zaire, Xavier and Zion.
An essay by Ms. Washington in the January 1988 issue of Essence attracted wide attention in the news media.
To the left was Davis's cluttered dressing room, full of tokens from her real life, including the December issue of Essence, with Davis on the cover, and a box of Genesis's toys.
In the July issue of Essence magazine, Donna M. Owens brings to the fore a topic that has not been addressed in some time--the extent to which black Greek-letter organizations ("BGLOs") are social justice organizations.
"Take the March issue of Essence and then look at the March issue of Vogue or Harper's Bazaar," Mr. Lewis said.
"As a rape survivor and as an advocate, I cannot shy away from this responsibility because the conversation got difficult," the actress, who was raped at gunpoint at age 19, says in the new issue of Essence.
Whenever I flip through old issues of Essence, Ebony or Jet magazine, I can't help but notice the striking cheekbones of Iman, Diana Ross, Grace Jones and Beverly Johnson.
Although this is controversial exegetical territory, it appears that Locke is aware of this 'real essence' version of natural kinds, but it further appears that he is unwilling to discuss it; his response was to steer clear of the metaphysical claim and return to the semantic issue of nominal essences.
