{"id":12756,"date":"2023-07-08T20:39:45","date_gmt":"2023-07-08T20:39:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glitterandgumbo.com\/?p=12756"},"modified":"2023-07-08T20:39:45","modified_gmt":"2023-07-08T20:39:45","slug":"2023-essence-festival-of-culture-day-two-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glitterandgumbo.com\/2023-essence-festival-of-culture-day-two-recap\/","title":{"rendered":"2023 Essence Festival of Culture Day Two Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Glitter&amp;Gumbo was in attendance at day two of the 2023 ESSENCE Festival of Culture\u2122 presented by Coca-Cola\u00ae and the panels were overall enlightening. The fellowship of women and men around me felt like an agreement of, \u201cLet the church say amen!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vice President of the United States Kamala Harris, Oprah Winfrey and Caroline Wanga\u2019s \u201cChief to Chief\u201d session, and the cast of \u201cThe Color Purple\u201d all dropped gems and nuggets to help us refocus our spiritual radar to encapsulate the essence of who we are called to be in this world. Photos: Arturo Holmes\/Paras Griffin\/Courtesy of ESSENCE<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"686\" src=\"https:\/\/glitterandgumbo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG_6656-1024x686.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12758\" srcset=\"https:\/\/glitterandgumbo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG_6656-1024x686.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/glitterandgumbo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG_6656-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/glitterandgumbo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG_6656-350x234.jpg 350w, https:\/\/glitterandgumbo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG_6656-1536x1029.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/glitterandgumbo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG_6656-2048x1372.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/glitterandgumbo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG_6656-1140x763.jpg 1140w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA &#8211; JUNE 30: (L-R) Danielle Brooks, Fantasia Barrino and Taraji P. Henson attend the 2023 ESSENCE Festival Of Culture\u2122 at Ernest N. Morial Convention Center on June 30, 2023 in New Orleans, Louisiana. (Photo by Paras Griffin\/Getty Images for ESSENCE)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/glitterandgumbo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG_6655-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12759\" srcset=\"https:\/\/glitterandgumbo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG_6655-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/glitterandgumbo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG_6655-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/glitterandgumbo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG_6655-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/glitterandgumbo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG_6655-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/glitterandgumbo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG_6655-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/glitterandgumbo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG_6655-1140x760.jpg 1140w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA &#8211; JUNE 30: Al Sharpton (C) attends the 2023 ESSENCE Festival Of Culture\u2122 at Ernest N. Morial Convention Center on June 30, 2023 in New Orleans, Louisiana. (Photo by Arturo Holmes\/Getty Images FOR ESSENCE)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/glitterandgumbo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG_6652.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12760\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA &#8211; JUNE 30: Oprah Winfrey (L) and Caroline Wanga speak onstage during the 2023 ESSENCE Festival Of Culture\u2122 at Ernest N. Morial Convention Center on June 30, 2023 in New Orleans, Louisiana. (Photo by Arturo Holmes\/Getty Images FOR ESSENCE)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/glitterandgumbo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG_6654-2-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12762\" srcset=\"https:\/\/glitterandgumbo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG_6654-2-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/glitterandgumbo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG_6654-2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/glitterandgumbo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG_6654-2-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/glitterandgumbo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG_6654-2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/glitterandgumbo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG_6654-2-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/glitterandgumbo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG_6654-2-1140x760.jpg 1140w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA &#8211; JUNE 30: Vice President of the United States Kamala Harris speaks onstage at the 2023 ESSENCE Festival Of Culture\u2122 at Ernest N. Morial Convention Center on June 30, 2023 in New Orleans, Louisiana. (Photo by Arturo Holmes\/Getty Images FOR ESSENCE)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video controls src=\"https:\/\/glitterandgumbo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/export_1688256636902.mov\"><\/video><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Glitter&amp;Gumbo was in attendance at day two of the 2023 ESSENCE Festival of Culture\u2122 presented by Coca-Cola\u00ae and the panels were overall enlightening. The fellowship of women and men around me felt like an agreement of, \u201cLet the church say amen!\u201d Vice President of the United States Kamala Harris, Oprah Winfrey and Caroline Wanga\u2019s \u201cChief [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12761,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3,300],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","category-in-the-pot","category-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glitterandgumbo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12756"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glitterandgumbo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glitterandgumbo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glitterandgumbo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glitterandgumbo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12756"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/glitterandgumbo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12765,"href":"https:\/\/glitterandgumbo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12756\/revisions\/12765"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glitterandgumbo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glitterandgumbo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glitterandgumbo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glitterandgumbo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}