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Amara La Negra shares her journey of embracing her natural hair and her thoughts on the policing of Black women's hair.
ESSENCE spoke to La Negra about beauty and fashion during a behind-the-scenes video for her profile in the magazine.
Singer and songwriter Euphamiarunyi Ekunah, popularly known as GoodGirl LA has opened up on the struggles she faced while pursuing her music career, revealing a period of isolation, self-doubt ...
Art and Culture Music At Glastonbury’s reinvented Shangri-La, everything must grow With a new theme for 2025, Glastonbury’s Shangri-La is embracing nature, community and possibility; Lisa Wright is ...
The best new albums out July 11 NPR Music's Stephen Thompson is back with Celia Gregory of Nashville public radio station WNXP to talk through this week's best new music.
McCarthy founded the group Nitzer Ebb in Essex, with David Gooday and Bon Harris. The band released its first single, “Isn’t It Funny How Your Body Works,” in 1985.
This year's Ojai festival, led by super-flutist Claire Chase, brilliantly featured Anaheim native Susie Ibarra, who just won the Pulitzer Prize for music.