00:00New Orleans hotels are almost completely booked because there's only one place for essence I love
00:05I love New Orleans the occupancy rate is at 97% walking in the dreams of our ancestors pumped
00:12more than a hundred million dollars into the local economy thank you very much that they
00:20sold more merchandise in the three days of the essence festival in the entire Christmas holiday
00:26season this is just an extraordinary celebration of the community of essence readers and what you
00:33feel throughout the weekend is the love of community
00:36this festival is a place to be it's cracking down here
00:49I love you sister we african-americans spending 22 billion dollars a year on apparel but we represent
00:56less than one percent of designers that are available in major department stores
01:11name something big a woman might have that would give her power in a relationship what about an ego
01:18y'all don't sound like
01:25whoever can sing
01:38s-a-n-g can sing we want to see you here right now
01:44let the mamas and the music capture you yeah life ain't so bad at all
01:51how many of y'all been getting the wobble on
01:59how many of y'all been getting the wobble on
02:06great party great people great food make your way down here
02:12each and every year I love it
02:14I love it
02:16I love it
02:17I love it
02:18I love it
02:19I love it
02:20I love it
02:21I love it
02:22I love it
02:23I love it
02:24I love it
02:25I love it
02:26I love it
02:27I love it
02:28I love it
02:29I love it
02:30I love it
02:31and I love it
02:31I love it
02:32I love it
02:33I love it
02:34I love it
02:35I love it
02:36I love it
02:37And as long as black women have to get up in the morning and find their beauty through their
02:39pain
02:40I love it
02:41I love it
02:43I love it
02:45I love it
02:46Sisters when they support each other
02:48make our communities stronger
02:49and so I'm here to tell you in order for us to really get to the root of the problem
02:50we have to look at the problem and that problem is us
02:51Because we are out of order, our children are out of order
02:55Our children are out of order.
02:57Our communities are dying.
02:59So as mothers, you know, when we send our children out
03:01into the world, we totally expect them to come home.
03:05And unfortunately, for too many of us, that's not happening.
03:09You have to know that you are strong enough,
03:12and that's why you are in that position.
03:14So when that opposition comes, no, the devil is busy, boo.
03:17He ain't going to send you people to tell you they love you
03:19every day.
03:19He wants to break you down.
03:21Got to take a leap of faith, ladies.
03:23Live your passion.
03:25I remember the first time I saw my name in Essence magazine.
03:30And I'm thinking, oh, my God.
03:32And they wrote so well about me.
03:34I started to believe what they were saying.
03:36He called me to sing gospel music.
03:39And now I sit.
03:43I sit at his feet.
03:51I wanted to say, he washed away.
03:55I'm going to have to lie to say, I'm so down for me.
04:02Let me hold up in kindness and call his tender mercy.
04:23Come on, everybody, say, I'm so down.
04:25I am so down.
04:27Wave your head and say, my mind.
04:29My mind is made up.
04:32New Orleans.
04:42Don't clap like this.
04:43Come on.
04:44Come on.
04:45Everybody.
04:46I got sunshine when it hurts.
04:48You can't disguise all the burning of your heart.
04:54To what you wanna do.
04:57Setting it off and letting it off.
04:59From children and dead.
05:02Are we really living or just won't get dead now?
05:07They call me Big Ellen.
05:09Big Tilly.
05:10Big Bunny.
05:11Big Bunny.
05:12Big Bunny.
05:13Big Bunny.
05:14Big Bunny.
05:15Big Bunny.
05:16Big Bunny.
05:17Maybe we could fall and bring a world.
05:21Big Bunny.
05:22Big Bunny.
05:24Big Bunny.
05:25Big Bunny.
05:26Yeah.
05:27Big Bunny.
05:28And the world.
05:29I'm a silver powder.
05:30Would it even matter?
05:31Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,
05:41oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.
05:42Give me a little baby.
05:46Say the name of me.
05:49Everything's gonna be on your mind.
05:56That's the soul train.
05:57Uh-oh.
05:58Hold on.
05:59Where you work at?
06:01you dropped it like it was real hot
06:04it's my birthday turn up
06:06man
06:06alright alright alright I'm going
06:10New Orleans
06:24girls we run this mother
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