Getty Image/Merle Cooper While the event is technically called the Essence Festival of Culture, one of its biggest draws is the nightly concert featuring some of the biggest names in Black music. But at the 2025 Essence Fest in New Orleans, those names and the music they represent could be seen, heard, and felt throughout the weekend, all over the city — whether that was in the convention hall or just walking the streets of the Big Easy. If you had to pick an unofficial anthem for the weekend, it’d have to be the 2024 hit from South Carolina native 803Fresh, “Boots On The Ground.” It seem...

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