Essence USA – August 2019

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(^) B E A U T Y Instead of incorporating countless products into her beauty routine (although she does adore a matte lip- stick ...

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(^) B E A U T Y From a cramp-curbing cream to amazing liquid lippies, products enhanced with CBD—a nonpsychoactive cannabis comp ...

1 BEAUTÉNOTIONS Immaculash Duo Mascara Set ($55, beautenotions.com). OLIVE & JUNE The Poppy Bottle Handle and Nail Poli ...

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CULTURE. Sho Sho DEF Hip-hop star Sho Madjozi is taking her South African culture global and everyone is listening BY CORI MURRA ...

MUSIC (^) C U L T U R E A t the 2019 BET Awards, South African hip-hop star Sho Madjozi had two goals: enjoy herself immensely a ...

I’m giddy about what’s coming in arts and entertainment this fall. Yes, there will be a few tears shed when these shows bid fare ...

(^) C U L T U R E Simpson notes that daily life is becoming a “heightened, inhospitable condition.” THE ARTIST’S WAY I n 1986 Lo ...

(Above) Lorna Simpson. (Below, counterclockwise from left) Simpson’s “Detroit (Ode to G),” 2016; “Earth & Sky #30,” 2016; an ...

FILM (^) C U L T U R E I t’s nearly impossible to settle on an entry point when preparing to speak with costume designer Ruth E. ...

Ruth Elaine’s story really begins in Springfield, Massachusetts, where she and her five brothers and two sisters were raised by ...

(^) C U L T U R E F or Denise Murrell, the question was simple enough: Why are we ignoring the Black woman in the painting? Then ...

Clockwise, from left: Félix Nadar’s “Maria the Antillean”; Marie-Guillemine Benoist’s “Portrait of Madeleine”; Paul Cézanne’s “T ...

SPOTLIGHT (^) C U LT U R E I n 2000 I made my way up the walkway of a house outside of Seattle with my husband, author Steven Ba ...

a society waiting to ignore her, Butler created herself and her wide legacy in a true-life act of science fiction. She was oppre ...

called “Surviving President Tr*mp: Lessons From the 1960’s and Octavia E. Butler.” I included a pho- to of an autograph Butler i ...

GIRL, INTERRUPTED Sisters Maika and Maritza Moulite deliver a delight- ful novel in Dear Haiti, Love Alaine (Inkyard Press, $18. ...