The proprietor of Black enterprise empire Essence Ventures, who vowed to step away because the appearing CEO of Essence journal after being an terrible boss throughout final 12 months’s racial reckoning, is not-so-quietly asserting his energy once more—and Black influencers are torn.
In the summertime of 2020, a Medium article was printed with damning accusations in opposition to Essence’s proprietor Richelieu Dennis. Underneath the pseudonym “Black Feminine Nameless,” Essence journal staffers demanded Dennis’ resignation—together with different management adjustments—after they mentioned girls have been “systematically suppressed by pay inequity, sexual harassment, company bullying, intimidation, colorism and classism” and the corporate had