The calmer and more grounded my life became, the clearer it was that my old way of dating no longer matched who I am now.

ESSENCE Editor Akili King shares how wearing fun patterns and colors is helping her get through a tough winter.

Humans are natural pattern recognizers. Whether, as in prehistoric times, we were recognizing danger in a telltale rustle of the bushes or skimming a page of letters and numbers today, we use patterns ...

For most of my life, I picked the wrong partners. Over time, I realized it wasn’t bad luck. I was choosing what I had seen, not what I had actually done the work to earn. Those patterns came from my ...