By Taylor Crumpton ·Updated July 26, 2023
While thousands of Black women flocked to the New Orleans Convention Center last week for the 2023 ESSENCE Festival of Culture, I reported on Black authors at the ESSENCE Authors stage. The stage, done in partnership with Mahogany Books, a Black-owned bookstore from Washington, DC, was my home for ESSENCE Fest.
Conversations emerged about the misrepresentation of Black love in literature and pop culture,
