Essence: Accurately Reflect the ethnic group or does it ...

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…the black culture it would not survive as a publication. If the African American population is not satisfied by Essence they would not purchase it, and the other ethnic groups having been rendered invisible by the magazine would not have a use for it either. Essence Magazine is a microscopic look at a small percentage of the African American Population. Essence targets and reaches a distinctly defined group; middle to upper class, educated African Americans.