ESSENCE Editorial Director Susan L. Taylor, Entertainment Editor Elayne Fluker, Alicia Keys, ESSENCE President Clarence Smith and Editor-at-Large Asha Bandele.
ESSENCE Executive Editor Tamara Jeffries, ESSENCE Publisher and CEO Ed Lewis, Taniqua Alexander, and President Clarence Smith.
J Records’ triple-platinum recording artist, Alicia Keys, pays homage to our contest winners at P. Diddy’s New York restaurant Justin’s.
(clockwise l-r): Courtney Blackwell, Tonya Cropper, ESSENCE President Clarence Smith, Monique Walker, ESSENCE Editorial Director Susan L. Taylor, Dorothy Harris, Publisher and CEO Ed Lewis, Judy Ann Loveless-Morris, Christin L. Ayers, Phyllis Wooley (Colgate-Palmolive), The Doug Banks Show co-host Dede Maguire, Kudiratu Aranmolate, Taniqua Alexander, Shannon Ashford and Shakirah Williams.
