In an exclusive interview after making her ESSENCE Festival debut as the Saturday night headliner, Mariah Carey revealed when she fell in love with R&B and why she loves ESSENCE.

After three major shootings over a three-week span, longtime celebrity couple Shanice and Flex Knox tell ESSENCE Live how they try to "equip" their kids the "best they can" in a world that seems to thrive off the ideas behind survival of the fittest, but "even when you do that, it seems like that doesn’t work.”

As the country continues to deal with the aftermath of two deadly police shootings against Black men, Dana Blair brings together three Black men to share their stories on how they cope with police brutality and the pain that stems from such an epidemic on ESSENCE Live!