In the 25-plus years since Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy died, she has remained a perennial style inspiration, a source of endless stories (like this one) on how to “steal her look.” But, as we were ...

I “met” B. Smith the day I started my career at ESSENCE. It was 1984 and as I walked through the glass doors of the lobby, there she was, her dark chocolate face smiling out at me, from an ESSENCE ...