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Essence Festival

  • Where: New Orleans
  • When: July 4-7
  • The headliners: Missy Elliott and Mary J. Blige
  • Why we're excited: Everyone can enjoy music and bask in the beauty of melanin and black culture. There's also going to be a beauty carnival, so you know attendees are going to be serving all sorts of looks.
  • See the full Essence lineup.
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