Sentence examples for essence awards from inspiring English sources

Like an Essence awards ceremony for entrepreneurs, the kickoff to the Black Business Hall of Fame on Thursday in Cleveland is assembling all the luminaries it can muster, hoping to jump-start a renaissance of black commerce.

At last night's Essence Awards, he and Dupri performed a single from the "Like Mike" soundtrack.

Despite some protesting beforehand ("I don't even know what the Essence Awards is," he told Raoof.

"God has blessed us to raise these children, but in the fear of the Lord; there ain't no other way," Mr. Winans said at the Essence Awards in 2003.

He has filled in for Jack Nicholson for the Academy Awards, Samuel L. Jackson for the Espy Awards and Cuba Gooding Jr. for the VH1 Fashion Awards; he has been a stand-in at the MTV Video Music Awards, the Essence Awards, the Grammys and the Emmys.

At the 1994 Essence Awards, Aretha Franklin performed a live rendition of the song as a tribute to The Reverend Jesse Jackson.

In June 1999, she received an Essence Award, but her acceptance speech, where she said there was no contradiction in religious love and servitude and "[being] who you are, as fly and as hot and as whatever," drew reaction from those in the public who thought she was not a good role model as a young, unwed mother of two.

She is the recipient of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund's Black Woman of Achievement Award, the NAACP Jackie Robinson Sports Achievement Award and the Essence magazine Award for Sports.

Also in 2015, King won the Fierce & Fearless Award at the Essence Black Women in Hollywood Awards.

Boone Isaacs was inducted into the NAACP's Hall of Fame and received Essence magazine's Trailblazer award this year.

Audrey Edwards, a former editor at Essence magazine, is an award-winning magazine journalist, writer and book author whose work has appeared in the New York Times, New York Daily News, AARP The Magazine, Columbia Journalism, and TheRoot.com.