August 28, 2025 • 6 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Essence recently announced that Caroline Wanga has stepped down as
president and CEO of Essence Ventures. We all remember this
past summer, Wanga received a lot of backlash and online
scrutiny about this year's Essence Fest. Sundial Technology and Media Group,
parent company of Essence Ventures, released a statement that read,
(00:21):
in part, quote, we are profoundly grateful to Caroline for
her leadership, vision, and unwavering advocacy of Black women and culture.
The statement went on to say, Carolyn has left an
indelible mark on Essence and beyond, and we celebrate them anyways.
She has amplified our mission and impact end quote. Wanga
(00:42):
has been on health lead and she will move on
to our next chapter of her life and career.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
So there you go.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
So we look forward to Essence Fest next year. Then yeah,
I mean, or will they skip a year?
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Steve?
Speaker 4 (00:56):
What you say?
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Thanks Gene that they had in that before Michelle E.
Banks and uh the young sister that ran all of
the booking and stuff, and that was a bad crew
right there.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
They've they've been on struggle ever since they left.
Speaker 5 (01:17):
Yeah, so they have some remapping to do and maybe
talking to their readers and festival goers and give me
back and see what they can do to bring that
magic back to essence.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Yeah. And it was a big money maker for them
as well.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Yeah, the tradition. We were there every year every year.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Yeah, yeah, Tommy Yeah. And other entertainment news. Yeah, and
other entertainment news. And then he'd take off the following
Monday for work.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Remember that.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Taylor Swift and Kansas City Chief football star Travis Kelsey
are officially now engaged. The two started dating in the
summer of twenty twenty three. Taylor's engagement ring is a
square oval diamond known as an old mine, cut in
a gold bezel setting. President Trump, remember he once said
that he hated Taylor Swift. Well, he commented on the
(02:16):
couple's engagement news. He said, quote, I wish him a
lot of luck.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Sus up.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Finally, always yes, just take congratulations.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
I can't not take the high road. Ever.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
You don't know what I say.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Sake congratulations and best wishes. That's what you say, all right.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Finally.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
In trending headline news, the NAACP is suing the state
of Texas over a new electoral map. This is according
to the NAACP. The lawsuit accuses Texas of racially motivated
jerrymandering to silence black communities for next year's midterm elections.
The state of Texas is only forty percent white, but
(02:58):
white voters now I'll control over seventy three percent of
the state's congressional seats.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
There.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
Johnson, president and CEO of the naa ACP, set all
this in the statement. So they're suing the state of Texas.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Yeah, and Texas knew exactly what they're doing, and they're
not gonna change it with the laws.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Yeah, see them all. Let's go. Don't get out of
the vote. Let's go, y'a. I got to register to vote,
I mean get out of vote.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
You do, man, even though you feel hopeless, sometimes you
still got.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
To exercise that right.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
It's your right. I'm not begging nobody else to vote.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
No more.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Look at his face.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
You're not good. Yeah, you don't want.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
To beg because what I don't I don't understand why
they cannot vote. I don't understand how you cannot understand
the significance because not votevoting is not participating. Not participating
is laying down and dying in it. And they get
to do exactly what they ain't.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
No, but no, they're just as frustrated as you are
because they don't see the change they want when they vote.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
That's the issue.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
But they don't vote. See you hit him crazy part
you sit up here because after the election is over,
we get the numbers.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
You complain.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
About it, don't go the way when you vote. But
then when the results come out, we find out that
you didn't vote.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
But then we still are staying responsibilability on this platform.
Steve to encourage people to vote. I mean, no matter
what we have to do, we still have to do
our part in encouraging them to vote. We have to
vote and encourage others to vote.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
That Latinos for Trump? How that work out?
Speaker 3 (04:54):
I don't even understand, man, How you don't even understand
all these blacks for Trump?
Speaker 4 (04:59):
How that worked out for you? What?
Speaker 2 (05:01):
What?
Speaker 3 (05:02):
What part of what? What part of this that you
don't you get? What makes you think?
Speaker 1 (05:09):
For years?
Speaker 4 (05:12):
You know, people every day at their jobs, they call.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Every sparating family.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
They're a huge percentage of Latinos voted for Trump.
Speaker 4 (05:24):
A huge percentage of black men voted for Trump. I
think the number is twenty eight percent.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
Now that's that's what and listen, man, we do we
we I don't know, I don't know how.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
We don't understand this.
Speaker 5 (05:38):
What you're voting didn't But if your vote didn't mean anything,
why they're doing all this redistricting, changing electoral map.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
That part they don't that's all.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
That's the disconnect. They don't get that part.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
Yeah, take your head in the sand and then democracy pull.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
It out and want something to be different. Yeah, I
ain't voting. I ain't going down there vote. Okay, bro, sister.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
That's the vote for the opponents when you don't do that.
But we still gotta encourage him, Steve, don't don't get
too frustrated. We still have to do it. Look at all,
all right, you're listening, Steve Harvey Morning Show
Essence recently announced that Caroline Wanga has stepped down as
president and CEO of Essence Ventures. We all remember this
past summer, Wanga received a lot of backlash and online
scrutiny about this year's Essence Fest. Sundial Technology and Media Group,
parent company of Essence Ventures, released a statement that read,
(00:21):
in part, quote, we are profoundly grateful to Caroline for
her leadership, vision, and unwavering advocacy of Black women and culture.
The statement went on to say, Carolyn has left an
indelible mark on Essence and beyond, and we celebrate them anyways.
She has amplified our mission and impact end quote. Wanga
(00:42):
has been on health lead and she will move on
to our next chapter of her life and career.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
So there you go.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
So we look forward to Essence Fest next year. Then yeah,
I mean, or will they skip a year?
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Steve?
Speaker 4 (00:56):
What you say?
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Thanks Gene that they had in that before Michelle E.
Banks and uh the young sister that ran all of
the booking and stuff, and that was a bad crew
right there.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
They've they've been on struggle ever since they left.
Speaker 5 (01:17):
Yeah, so they have some remapping to do and maybe
talking to their readers and festival goers and give me
back and see what they can do to bring that
magic back to essence.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Yeah. And it was a big money maker for them
as well.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Yeah, the tradition. We were there every year every year.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Yeah, yeah, Tommy Yeah. And other entertainment news. Yeah, and
other entertainment news. And then he'd take off the following
Monday for work.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Remember that.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Taylor Swift and Kansas City Chief football star Travis Kelsey
are officially now engaged. The two started dating in the
summer of twenty twenty three. Taylor's engagement ring is a
square oval diamond known as an old mine, cut in
a gold bezel setting. President Trump, remember he once said
that he hated Taylor Swift. Well, he commented on the
(02:16):
couple's engagement news. He said, quote, I wish him a
lot of luck.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Sus up.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Finally, always yes, just take congratulations.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
I can't not take the high road. Ever.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
You don't know what I say.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Sake congratulations and best wishes. That's what you say, all right.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Finally.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
In trending headline news, the NAACP is suing the state
of Texas over a new electoral map. This is according
to the NAACP. The lawsuit accuses Texas of racially motivated
jerrymandering to silence black communities for next year's midterm elections.
The state of Texas is only forty percent white, but
(02:58):
white voters now I'll control over seventy three percent of
the state's congressional seats.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
There.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
Johnson, president and CEO of the naa ACP, set all
this in the statement. So they're suing the state of Texas.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Yeah, and Texas knew exactly what they're doing, and they're
not gonna change it with the laws.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Yeah, see them all. Let's go. Don't get out of
the vote. Let's go, y'a. I got to register to vote,
I mean get out of vote.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
You do, man, even though you feel hopeless, sometimes you
still got.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
To exercise that right.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
It's your right. I'm not begging nobody else to vote.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
No more.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Look at his face.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
You're not good. Yeah, you don't want.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
To beg because what I don't I don't understand why
they cannot vote. I don't understand how you cannot understand
the significance because not votevoting is not participating. Not participating
is laying down and dying in it. And they get
to do exactly what they ain't.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
No, but no, they're just as frustrated as you are
because they don't see the change they want when they vote.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
That's the issue.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
But they don't vote. See you hit him crazy part
you sit up here because after the election is over,
we get the numbers.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
You complain.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
About it, don't go the way when you vote. But
then when the results come out, we find out that
you didn't vote.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
But then we still are staying responsibilability on this platform.
Steve to encourage people to vote. I mean, no matter
what we have to do, we still have to do
our part in encouraging them to vote. We have to
vote and encourage others to vote.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
That Latinos for Trump? How that work out?
Speaker 3 (04:54):
I don't even understand, man, How you don't even understand
all these blacks for Trump?
Speaker 4 (04:59):
How that worked out for you? What?
Speaker 2 (05:01):
What?
Speaker 3 (05:02):
What part of what? What part of this that you
don't you get? What makes you think?
Speaker 1 (05:09):
For years?
Speaker 4 (05:12):
You know, people every day at their jobs, they call.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Every sparating family.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
They're a huge percentage of Latinos voted for Trump.
Speaker 4 (05:24):
A huge percentage of black men voted for Trump. I
think the number is twenty eight percent.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
Now that's that's what and listen, man, we do we
we I don't know, I don't know how.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
We don't understand this.
Speaker 5 (05:38):
What you're voting didn't But if your vote didn't mean anything,
why they're doing all this redistricting, changing electoral map.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
That part they don't that's all.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
That's the disconnect. They don't get that part.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
Yeah, take your head in the sand and then democracy pull.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
It out and want something to be different. Yeah, I
ain't voting. I ain't going down there vote. Okay, bro, sister.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
That's the vote for the opponents when you don't do that.
But we still gotta encourage him, Steve, don't don't get
too frustrated. We still have to do it. Look at all,
all right, you're listening, Steve Harvey Morning Show
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