Vanessa DeLuca

Vanessa DeLuca is the Editor in Chief of ESSENCE.

Recent Articles

A Voice to Say, This Land Is My Land

To be Black in America is to navigate an existence where one is at once–and perhaps perpetually–seen and unseen, valued and devalued, by a society that has historically questioned the worth of those it once...

By Vanessa DeLuca

Ferguson's Emotional Aftermath

As a Black mother, it frightens me that I have come to expect this verdict, writes the editor of ESSENCE

By Vanessa DeLuca
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