After initially strongly denying allegations that management had long mistreated staff at Essence magazine, executives at its parent company appeared to stage a quick about-face.
After initially strongly denying allegations that management had long mistreated staff at 50-year-old Essence magazine, executives at its parent company appeared to stage a quick about-face.
In it, a group calling itself Black Female Anonymous and stating they are present and past employees made a number of allegations against executives at Essence, whose target audience is Black women, and calling for the immediate resignation of Dennis, Essence Ventures board member Michelle Ebanks, chief operating officer Joy Collins Profet and chief content officer Moana Luu.
As for Dennis, who acquired Essence in 2018 from Time Inc., the blog alleged that he has “a history of sleeping with women on the Sundial staff,” the parent company of Shea Moisture he sold to Unilever in 2017. It added that for the women who don’t seemingly consent, he openly sexually harasses them at private company events, although it did not state if that was at Essence.
And then there’s Ebanks, who stepped down as ceo earlier this year, but remains on the board. The essay recalled a town hall in 2019 when some employees asked about pay raises. Her response was to point to the door and told staff they could leave if they could find better compensation elsewhere.
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