ESSENCE readers share their experiences with gun violence.

President Obama caused a stir when he complimented the attorney general's beauty at a fundraiser.

A woman who’s boyfriend won’t tell anyone at church or in his family about their relationship fears she may not be his girlfriend at all.

Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban has set his sights on Brintey Griner, but is the NBA ready to include women?

Memphis residents Kathy Dean Evans and Herb Kneeland recall the day they learned of the civil rights leader's assassination.

Janelle Harris shares her natural hair journey after chopping off her permed hair.

Children are spending an average of 7.5 hours a day using entertainment media, according to First Lady Michelle Obama's "Let's Move!" initiative.

A heartbreaking interview with Cleopatra Cowley-Pendleton and Nathaniel Pendleton, whose daughter Hadiya was murdered in Chicago's South Side neighborhood.

We want to know if you change up your makeup regimen to keep your glam in check when the temperature rises.

Medical students at Howard University are calling for the cancelation of Bravo's latest reality show Married to Medicine because it negatively "associates Black females in medicine with materialism."