Empowering women is a monumental task. Essence Featival and Essence Magazine completes this task flawlessly. How can we continue to empower women to see beyond a their current status in life? How do we empower women to dream beyond their own fears? This is the task Essence Magazine as taken on for over twenty years. 

We are all students eternally. We are calwsys learning a lesson about life. Essence does this through music, empowering women with words, lyrics, and songs. ​

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