The ESSENCE Black Women in Sports Portraits Studio came to life in Vegas as the city was bubbling with excitement ahead of Super Bowl LVIII.

The Holsinger Collection exhibit Visions of Progress: Portraits of Dignity, Style and Racial Uplift features photographs taken by well-known Charlottesville photographer Rufus Holsinger.

It matters not that these photographs were taken 35 years ago, what matters is that their messages and messengers remain as critical to America today as the instant they were taken.

In 1829, Glenalvin J. Goodridge (1829-1867) was born into a family that counted itself part of a growing population of free Black people in York, Pennsylvania. Goodridge opened his first ...