Home • News Essential Viewing 11.12 Essential Viewing 11.12 By Essence · Updated October 29, 2020 01 Essential Viewing Father of two, Usher, gets in some daddy time with son Usher V in L.A. 02 Essential Viewing During her eighth week on ‘DWTS’ Brandy dances the Cha Cha Cha and the Waltz. She’s holding on to the top of the leader board as finals approach. 03 Essential Viewing New parents Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys partied at the GQ November issue party in NYC. 04 Essential Viewing The First Couple lights candles in Mumbai, India in honor of Diwali, the festival of lights. 05 Essential Viewing Dressed to kill, Halle Berry walked the red carpet at AFI Festival in Hollywood. 06 Essential Viewing Selita Ebanks strutted her stuff down the catwalk at this year’s Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show at the Lexington Avenue Armory in NYC. 07 Essential Viewing Education is important to Mary J. Blige. She attended the HELP USA 2010 Domestic Violence Graduate Scholarship awards luncheon this week. 08 Essential Viewing Oprah recently had the opportunity to interview the Jackson family. She spoke with Prince, Paris and Blanket about their father, Michael. 09 Essential Viewing Co-hosts of the 2010 Soul Train Awards, Taraji P Henson and Terrence Howard looked great together on the lavender carpet. 10 Essential Viewing Yet again, debuting another hairstyle, Rihanna performed on Italy’s ‘X Factor.’ 11 Essential Viewing Tracy Mourning, Alonzo Mourning, Dwyane Wade and Queen Latifah all came out to the 2010 ADCOLOR Awards in Miami. 12 Essential Viewing Rihanna also performed at the MTV Europe Music Awards in Madrid, Spain. 13 Essential Viewing The People’s Choice Award nominations were announced this week and Queen Latifah was chosen to host the 2011 awards show. 14 Essential Viewing Like mother like daughter, Jada Pinkett Smith and Willow Smith wore matching red shoes as they headed out of L.A. 15 Essential Viewing Pauletta Washington, Her Royal Highness The Princess of Hanover Caroline and Denzel Washington attended The 2010 Princess Grace Awards Gala. 16 Essential Viewing Lyricist and actor, Common spoke at this year’s VH1 Save the Music Foundation Gala at Cipriani. 17 Essential Viewing Kerry Washington and Sherri Shepherd were spotted at the 2010 Moves Magazine Power Women awards dinner and ceremony. 18 Essential Viewing Family man and actor Forest Whitaker took his daughters, Sonnet Noel Whitaker and True Whitaker, to the 2010 Freedom Awards. 19 Essential Viewing As glamorous as ever, Janet Jackson lit up the red carpet of the Glamour Women of the Year awards.