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Last weekend, Lifetime premiered the Whitney Houston biopic, Whitney.  Despite the overall mixed reviews and controversy surrounding the Angela Bassett-directed project, which starred Yaya DaCosta…

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Angela Burt-Murray, editor-in-chief of Essence magazine, exited stage left today, resigning from her post after a five-year-run. Apparently, Burt-Murray summoned her editors late this afternoon and made the big announcement that she was moving to Atlanta with her family. Insiders say Burt-Murray had actually laid the groundwork for her resignation last July and wanted to […]

Days after releasing a statement, Essence magazine Editor-in-Chief Angela Burt Murray is continuing to defend her decision to hire Elliana Placas, a white woman, as the publication's new fashion director. In an opinion piece for The Grio, Burt Murray claims that the magazine's "commitment to black women remains unchanged."

Essence editor-in-chief Angela Burt-Murray told Black Voices in a written statement that Ellianna Placas, a former fashion editor at O: Home and Us Weekly, is just part of Essence’s growing fashion team.