Essence's White Fashion Director Ellianna Placas Causes Controversy

I left as a reader of Essence years ago when Marcia Gillespie left. The fiction and poetry section have not since been repeated. As fir the fashions...when they stopped showing black women in fashionable clothes with curses that nixed it forever for me. I've been marching to my own drummer ever since.



I had a subscription from their second year until Marcia left and stopped buying them a news stands and stores after the skinny women appeared.



My sister was a charter subscriber who ended her subscription for about the same reasons.



I still miss the old Essence. Calling up Emerge too. Once we had some great black magazines.
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