By Demetria L. Lucas ·Updated November 4, 2021
This is an advanced excerpt from Guiding Light, an article that originally appears in the upcoming November/December 2021 holiday issue of ESSENCE, on newsstands soon.
When you think about it, Tabitha Brown’s mega-success doesn’t quite make sense. Or at least not if you apply the rules of what success is “supposed” to look like and who is supposed to have it—and when.
At 42, Brown has only recently become