FILE - Attendees walk around the 2018 Essence Festival at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center on Friday, July 6, 2018, in New Orleans. The 30th Essence Festival of Culture, celebrating the best of Black culture’s policymakers, thought leaders, creatives, business minds, health experts and musical talent, will take place this Fourth of July weekend, 2024, in New Orleans. (Photo by Amy Harris/Invision/AP, File)