(30 Jun 2023)
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New Orleans - 30 June 2023
1. Wide of Essence Festival of Culture entrance
2. Wide of event staff dancing
ANNOTATION: The 29th annual Essence Festival of Culture is revving up in New Orleans.
3. Various of crowds
ANNOTATION: Nearly 30 years ago, creators of Essence Magazine came to New Orleans to celebrate the publication’s 25th anniversary.
4. Various of friends posing for a photo
5. Wide of Essence Fest vendor booths
ANNOTATION: The event began with a salute to Black women highlighting culture, empowering conversations and, of course, music.
6. Tight of vendor booth that reads, "I am a voter Reproductive Justice"
7. Wide of Kids dancing
ANNOTATION: Lauryn Hill, Missy Elliott and Megan Thee Stallion are the headliners as the festival commemorates 50 years of hip-hop.
8. Wide of friends singing together in recording booth
9. Tight of Darline Jackson dancing
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Darline Jackson, Festival Goer:
"It's like a big ol' house party, family reunion and I really love it."
11. Wide of Jackson dancing
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12. SOUNDBITE (English) Darline Jackson, Festival Goer:
"Particular to this is hip hop. The fifty years of hip hop and I am a hip hop person."
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13. SOUNDBITE (English) Erica Dodson, Columbus, Ohio Resident:
"At first I did originally want to come for the music, but once I saw everything that was happening at the convention center, I knew that I want to spend every day here at walking in and seeing the first booth about banned books was exceptional. I've been in education for 26 years and a lot of the books over there I already have for my students to read. And so I had an opportunity to get something different."
14. Wide of Erica Dodson looking at banned books
15. Tight of vendor booth sign that reads, "African American Policy Reform"
16. Wide of Dodson buying banned book
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17. SOUNDBITE (English) Erica Dodson, Columbus, Ohio Resident:
"It's important for black communities to have access and opportunity that they don't always get. And so an event like this brings people from all over the world and a great step together, and it just reminds each and every one of us that there are opportunities out there."
ANNOTATION: The 2022 festival had a $327 million impact on New Orleans’ economy, according to a study generated by Dillard University.
18. Various of outside of New Orleans Convention center
STORYLINE:
The 29th annual Essence Festival of Culture is revving up in New Orleans.
Most of the free workshops and celebrity meet-and-greets at the festival will be inside the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center.
A few blocks away, the Superdome will host nightly ticketed performances.
Lauryn Hill, Missy Elliott and Megan Thee Stallion are the headliners as the festival commemorates 50 years of hip-hop.
The festival's newly appointed vice president, Hakeem Holmes, says it's the first time that three black women emcees are headlining the event.
The festival’s lineup used to be heavily shaped by mostly R&B artists.
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