Trailblazing Essence editor on Sarah Vaughan, Newark riots and her mother, a ‘Force of Beauty’
Updated Feb 18, 2021;
Posted Feb 17, 2021
Mikki Taylor at the 2016 Essence Black Women In Hollywood awards luncheon in Beverly Hills. She was beauty and cover director at the magazine for 30 years, working with former first lady Michelle Obama and the Obama family, Beyoncé, Rosa Parks and more. She talks about her Newark childhood in Force of Beauty, a new memoir for Audible. Rich Polk | Getty Images
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For Mikki Taylor, Take Your Daughter to Work Day meant accompanying her mother, Modina Davis, to “The Ed Sullivan Show” in 1959.