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The deal placed the ownership of the 34-year-old Essence magazine, one of the United States' leading magazines for women of color, under widespread ownership, rather than black ownership. [8] In January 2018, the magazine returned to a fully black-owned publication after its acquisition by Richelieu Dennis, the founder of Sundial Brands. [9]
Taylor started her career at Essence, a magazine for African-American women, in 1970, the year the magazine was founded. Her first position at the magazine was freelance fashion and beauty editor. [1] At the time, she was a divorced single mother without a college degree. [5]
He was one of the co-founders of Essence magazine, and chairman of Latina magazine. [2] [3] He was the first black chairman of the Magazine Publishers of America. [2] His memoir, The Man From Essence: Creating a Magazine for Black Women, was co-authored by Audrey Edwards and published in 2014. [4] Lewis grew up in South Bronx, New York. [2]
In 1998 Lewis became editor-in-chief of the NAACP's The Crisis magazine. [1] She was an adjunct professor of journalism at Boston University College of Communication and was a member of the Dean's Executive Advisory Board, the Alumni Council, and the College of Communication's National Alumni Committee. She established the Ida E. Lewis ...
Marcia Ann Gillespie (born 10 July 1944) is an African-American magazine editor, writer, professor, media and management consultant, and racial and gender justice activist. [1] She previously served as editor-in-chief of Essence magazine and Ms. magazine. [ 2 ]
Essence Magazine, an iconic American publication dedicated to covering all things Black Girl Magic since 1970, has furloughed staff “due to revenue losses” amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
Essence magazine announced on Tuesday it was furloughing a number of staffers and only paying their salaries through the end of this week.It is unclear the number of staffers included or in what ...
An emigrant from Liberia, Dennis is the owner of Essence magazine and the 1992 founder of Sundial Brands, a skin and hair care products company which is now a division of Unilever. He purchased Madam Walker's brands in 2013 and relaunched them.