But while in The Big Easy for the 2025 Essence Festival of Culture, I discovered at least one surprising addition to the ...

Lauryn Hill thanked the 2025 Essence Fest for taking responsibility for her late set time at 2:30 a.m. on Saturday, July 5, ...

Lauryn Hills is off the hook as Essence takes blame for a set that wrapped after 3:30 a.m. Stephanie Mills, however, is still ...

The singer says scheduling issues and "lack of technical preparedness" negatively impacted both her show and attendees' ...

She took requests to sing "I Gotta Find Peace of Mind" and "Tell Him," per Rolling Stone, and also performed songs from her ...

The organizers of Essence Fest don’t want you to be miseducated about Lauryn Hill.

Essence Festival shows support for Lauryn Hill in a lengthy statement following her delayed 2 a.m. performance on July 5.

Fans who stuck around for Hill’s performance got a treat. A robust band of more than 10 members played as Black history ...

In tiaras, cowboy boots and thrifted T-shirts, festivalgoers used style to celebrate identity, joy and community.

Lauryn Hill performed for a handful of fans in the middle of the night, hours after she was originally scheduled to take the ...

Essence Festival is taking the blame for Lauryn Hill's set being delayed until the wee hours of Friday night (July 4), when ...

The Friday night headliner was originally scheduled to perform at 12:35 a.m., but event delays meant her set didn't start ...