{"id":61934,"date":"2021-10-25T14:55:24","date_gmt":"2021-10-25T14:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=61934"},"modified":"2021-10-25T14:55:25","modified_gmt":"2021-10-25T14:55:25","slug":"the-emancipation-of-mariah-carey-inside-the-making-of-her-essence-cover-15-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=61934","title":{"rendered":"The Emancipation of Mariah Carey: Inside The Making Of Her ESSENCE Cover 15 Years Ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.essence.com\/feature\/inside-the-making-of-mariah-carey-essence-cover\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>The Emancipation of Mariah Carey: Inside The Making Of Her ESSENCE Cover 15 Years Ago<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.essence.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Essence<\/a><br \/>\n2020-04-15<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Michaela_Angela_Davis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Michaela Angela Davis<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.essence.com\/feature\/inside-the-making-of-mariah-carey-essence-cover\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.essence.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Mariah-Carey_EmancipationofMimi8-Cropped-1.jpg?width=1920\" width=\"550\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>As the record-breaking album &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Emancipation_of_Mimi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Emancipation of Mimi<\/a>&#8221; turns 15 this week, a former editor remembers why the singer wanted to speak directly to black women for the first time.<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe <em>ESSENCE<\/em> cover was a milestone in my career. I felt like I was finally being seen. It gave me a sense of belonging.\u201d \u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mariah_Carey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mariah Carey<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.essence.com\/feature\/inside-the-making-of-mariah-carey-essence-cover\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.essence.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/MariahCarey_April2005.jpg?width=1800\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cast in a gentle painterly light, the content and confident face of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mariah_Carey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mariah Carey<\/a> peers out from the April 2005 cover of <em>ESSENCE<\/em>. Delicately brushed with \u201clingerie hues\u201d of makeup and framed by soft romantic curls, her face radiates warmth. But underneath its shimmering surface, this monumental cover took deft hoop-jumping, sharp strategy and a committed circle of sisters&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.essence.com\/feature\/inside-the-making-of-mariah-carey-essence-cover\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the record-breaking album &#8220;The Emancipation of Mimi&#8221; turns 15 this week, a former editor remembers why the singer wanted to speak directly to black women for the first time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,1245,8413,8,20,25],"tags":[25511,2426,113,12980,1392],"class_list":["post-61934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-biography","category-communications","category-media-archive","category-usa","category-women","tag-essence","tag-essence-magazine","tag-mariah-carey","tag-michaela-angela-davis","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61934"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61935,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61934\/revisions\/61935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}