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SUSAN L. TAYLOR TO LEAVE ESSENCE: Editorial Director steps down after nearly 17 years at magazine.
*Susan L. Taylor, the current editorial director of Essence magazine, will leave the publication next month to focus more attention on building her Essence Cares mentoring program, reports Richard Prince's Journal-isms column.
Those who attempt to contact Taylor by e-mail are told: "I am taking a break in South Africa and will have little access to email. When I come back to the States in mid-January, I will be leaving Essence to do what at this juncture in my life has become a larger work for me —building the National Cares Mentoring Movement, which I founded as Essence Cares and today is my deepest passion.
"With mentoring I see light shining at the end of a long dark tunnel. There is a chance that if I devote more time and space in my life to learning and working with the growing number of community leaders throughout the nation who are organizing local Cares mentoring efforts, such a movement will succeed in doing what political will and public policy have not done: give our children in peril a chance to develop the extraordinary in themselves."
Taylor moved from the part-time position of free-lance beauty editor in 1970, to the full-time staff position of fashion and beauty editor, and eventually became editor-in-chief, in 1981. Six years ago, she was promoted to editorial director.
Her Essence Cares mentoring program is a partnership with the National Urban League, 100 Black Men of America, the Links, Inc., and the YWCA.
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