Respect

  This video of little Johanna at her dance recital is too cute!  She must have really felt the lyrics to Aretha Franklin’s “Respect,” because she stole the show.

There’s no doubt that music is a form of self-expression. And many artists not only use the recording booth as a hit-making platform, but also as a medium to impact social change and connect with their fans across the globe. June is African-American Music Month. Created by President Jimmy Carter, every president since then has […]

Surely Essence Magazine’s Abiola Abrams has heard her share of intimacy issues from couples inrelationships of every sort since being in the love business, but something tells us that her latest inquiry was a little different. A black woman wrote into the magazine saying that her husband calls her “nigger bitch” during sex and has joked about […]