jodie lived 54,554 days b4 i met louis dPdL

the seventh black Pearson🍋🏈 #thisisus new to the #iwtv fandom🫶🏾 loustat, leyton, richonne, kophie always❤️ she, her.

[jodie lived 54,554 days b4 i met louis dPdL @megmarklesbitch]

loustat diaries tomorrow

[ESSENCE @Essence]

To our Curators, thank you.

Mara Brock Akil, Nina Compton, Nikole
Hannah-Jones, and Sanaa Lathan, thank you for sharing your creativity, your perspective, and your heart with the ESSENCE Festival family.

From unforgettable, thought-provoking conversations to moments of joy, healing, food, and community, your vision helped make this family reunion one we’ll never forget.

Culture is at its best when we all have a hand in creating it. It’s a reflection of our collective creativity, our shared experiences, and the power of bringing brilliant minds together. Thank you for helping make this year’s ESSENCE Festival a living expression of Black joy, creativity, and possibility.

Here’s to the Curators who helped make ESSENCE Festival 2026 unforgettable.

Want to take the magic home? Pick up the special ESSENCE Festival Curators Double Issue on newsstands July 21.

Photos: Peace Bureau
Design: @so.lit

[jodie lived 54,554 days b4 i met louis dPdL @megmarklesbitch]

@Leticia51008687 thank you!

[𝕵 @chiippedfangs]

they will always be in love and they will always belong to each other and only they are allowed to hurt one another and no amount of doom will take away their soulamtism, loustat you are everything, lovers, husbands, fathers, morons, everything always

[T. @TOHBADDI]

You all aren’t grasping how sinister it is for Disney to go out of their way to cast a white girl, whitetina and a wasian.

And this is a misrepresentation of what TCG was. It wasn’t simply about diversity, it was about representing the underrepresented.

[Stephanie 🇭🇹 @zoehoeglow]

Every girl could’ve been as dark as the black girl. Could’ve casted a Filipino or Cambodian baddie. Latin American has no shortage of melanated indigenous people. But nah, everybody gotta pass a paper bag test…

[◦ local cryptid ◦ @myacrowave]

@zoehoeglow the concept of a filipina cheetah girl,,,

[jodie lived 54,554 days b4 i met louis dPdL @megmarklesbitch]

@NeneKenya92 unless it’s loumel dkdkdkdkkd

[jodie lived 54,554 days b4 i met louis dPdL @megmarklesbitch]

@cherriestat ahhhhh ok no wonder…i’m waiting😆…….thank you!

[Black Film Alerts @BlackFilmAlerts]

Salli Richardson-Whitfield makes Emmy history as the first black woman to receive two nominations for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series.

In 2024, she made history as the first Black woman to receive an Emmy nomination for this category as well.

[Stephanie 🇭🇹 @zoehoeglow]

Everyone is rightfully focused on Black-girl representation, but other POC should be mad too. Why is the Asian “representation” Wasian? Why is the Latin “representation” white-passing? Disney could’ve gotten away with diverse casting if they weren’t scared of ACTUAL BROWN PEOPLE.

[𝔹𝕝𝕒𝕔𝕜 & ℙ𝕖𝕥𝕥𝕪 @black_and_petty]

THANK YOU. I literally said they could’ve casted a fully black girl, a biracial white black girl, a blasian and an Afro Latina girl and nobody would’ve said a thing. Like why you white washing this cause let them reboot high school musical with an all black cast they would’ve had a fit.

[jodie lived 54,554 days b4 i met louis dPdL @megmarklesbitch]

@zoehoeglow not the paper bag test baby you took it there

[Stephanie 🇭🇹 @zoehoeglow]

@mara_snyder The fact that 2026 casting directors are more discriminatory than 90s/00s casting directors...

[Black Film Alerts @BlackFilmAlerts]

First poster for ‘Diarra from Detroit’ Season 2.

The Diarra Kilpatrick-led series is set to make its return on Paramount+, July 29th!

⬇️: Full trailer down below!

[interview with the vampire reactions and clips @iwtvreactions]

louis de pointe du lac at the confessional saying and he has roots in me all his spindly roots in me and i can’t think nothing anymore but his voice and his words help me!!!! i’m weak!!!! this was such a mood actually #iwtv #InterviewWithTheVampire

[jodie lived 54,554 days b4 i met louis dPdL @megmarklesbitch]

SAME FACE IM DYING

[loustat nation citizen @TheEggsos]

lestat "if u see my wife yelling at me, mind ur own business, i'm exactly where I wanna be" de lioncourt

[⚜ @archivesbyher]

🥂✨️

[loustat nation citizen @TheEggsos]

doctor: you have 1 hour and 6 minutes to live

me: