Home • ESSENCE Black Women in Hollywood Double Tap That! #Instagood Times from Black Women in Hollywood The most double tap worthy behind-the-scenes moments from our 9th annual Black Women in Hollywood luncheon. By Lauren Porter · Updated October 27, 2020 01 Garcelle Beauvais and Oprah YAASS!! Any moment with Oprah is a good one! We love this picture of Garcelle Beauvais and Lady O! Instagram.com/garcelle 02 Zendaya Kisses to Zendaya and our Beauty and Style Director Pam Edwards Christiani! Instagram.com/pecstyle 03 Tina Knowles-Lawson and Jurnee Smollett-Bell Miss Tina looks amazing and so does Jurnee! Instagram.com/essencemag 04 Cori Murray and Chris Rock Look at our Entertainment Director and our February cover star look great! Instagram.com/corimurray 05 Aja Naomi King and Tika Sumpter Come through melanin! We see you ladies working the red lip! Instagram.com/tikasumpter 06 Nate Parker The awesome Luvvie caught a pic with Nate Parker on the red carpet! Yes!! Instagram.com/luvvie 07 Aja Naomi King, Tika Sumpter and Chris Rock Everybody loves Chris! Instagram.com/tikasumpter 08 Garcelle Beauvais and Keke Palmer On the red carpet, Keke thanked Garcelle for paving the way for actresses like her! We love moments like this! Instagram.com/garcelle 09 Aja Naomi King and Kelly McCreary We love these Shondaland ladies! Instagram.com/seekellymccreary 10 Issa Rae Issa kicked it with her squad inside before the action got started! Instagram.com/issarae 11 Keke Palmer, Mona Scott-Young and Zendaya These three ladies are serving it! We can’t get enough! Instagram.com/MonaScottYoung 12 Suzanne de Passe and Thandie Newton Thandie and Suzanne are glowing! Instagram.com/thandieandkay 13 Amber Riley But first, let me take a picture! We are loving Amber’s look for the pre-Oscar luncheon! Instagram.com/msamberriley 14 Latham Thomas, Dana Blair, Thandie Newton and Luvvie Ya’ll better serve face! Yes ladies! Instagram.com/thandieandkay 15 Estelle and Thais Francis The British beauty snapped a photo with our ESSENCE 2016 short film contest winner Thais Francis. Instagram.com/estelledarlings 16 Iman Milner and Kelly Rowland The glow in this picture is overwhelming! Iman and Kelly look stunning! Instagram.com/imannmilner 17 Lena Waithe, Tika Sumpter and Emayatzy Corinealdi These ladies came ready for a close up! Looking great! Instagrm.com/hillmangrad 18 Oprah and Iman Milner Our 2015 Short Film Contest winner got a picture with Oprah! 19 Leon Bridges, Oprah and Brittni Jessie So this happened! How fab does everyone look! Instagram.com/brittnijessie 20 Krista Campbell and Debbie Allen Erica Campbell’s daughter Krista got a pic with our BWIH Legend honoree Ms. Debbie Allen! How precious! Instagram.com/iamericacampbell 21 Debbie Allen and Norm Nixon Our 2016 BWIH Legend receipient Debbie Allen and her husband Norm celebrate during the event! #BlackLove Instagram.com/therealdebbieallen 22 Traces Ellis-Ross and Demetria Lucas-D’Oyley Former ESSENCE editor Demetria Lucas-D’Oyley looks uber fab with the fierce Tracee Ellis-Ross! Instagram.com/demetrialucasdoyley 23 Emil Wilbekin, Lisa Bonner and Miss Lawrence The world of Wilbekin looks like a party! How much fun! Instagram.com/emilwilbekin 24 Krista Campbell and Amber Riley The daughter of Mary Mary singer Erica Campbell had such a cute moment with The Wiz Live alum Amber Riley! Werk ladies! Instagram.com/iamericacampbell 25 Chudney Ross, Yvette Nicole Brown and Rhonda Ross The Community actress grabbed a moment with the sisters of our fierce and fabulous honoree Tracee Ellis-Ross! Instagram.com/yvettenicolebrown 26 Insta Love 27 Erica Campbell and Margaret Avery Can you believe Margaret Avert from The Color Purple is 72! How great do she and Erica look! Instagram.com/iamericacampbell 28 Evan Ross, Kym Whitley and Rhonda Ross Funny lady Kym Whitley looks amazing alongside Evan and Rhonda! Instagram.com/TheRhondaRoss 29 Oprah and Evelyn Lozada How heavenly do these ladies look?! Evelyn, we are feeling that jumpsuit girl! Instagram.com/EvelynLozada 30 Holly Robinson-Peete We love that Holly brought her mom along to celebrate during our pre-Oscar luncheon! Instagram.com/hollyrpeete 31 Jerrika Hinton and Lena Waithe How gorgeous are these smiles! Instagram.com/hellojerrika 32 Bevy Smith, Keke Palmer and Miss Lawrence Serve. Face!! Instagram.com/bevysmith 33 Lorraine Touissant, Vicky Jeudy and Garcelle Beauvais Two of our fave Orange is the New Black stars and Garcelle look so divine inside BWIH! Instagram.com/lorrainetoussaint 34 Tika Sumpter and Miss Lawrence Skin on fleek! Instagram.com/misslawrence 35 Tika Sumpter and Nate Parker Brillance captured in one moment! Instagram.com/emilwilbekin 36 Debbie Allen, Norm Nixon Jr. and Tracee Ellis-Ross Norm Nixon Jr got a picture with two of this year’s honorees, one of which just happens to be his mom! No big deal! Instagram.com/thumpnixon 37 Oprah Lady O shared a moment with some of the young ladies of the American Grace Conservatory! How precious! Instagram.com/iamericacampbell 38 Shonda Rhimes and Luvvie Luvvie and the genius mind behind our favorite Thursday night shows look wonderful! Instagram.com/shondarhimes 39 Emil Wilbekin and Tracee Ellis-Ross So much fabulousness happening here! Instagram.com/emilwilbekin 40 Emil Wilbekin and Tracee Ellis-Ross The secret to a divine selfie is the Ty-Lite! These two have mastered it! Instagram.com/tyliteofficial 41 Lena Waithe, Yvette Nicole Brown and Wendy Raquel Robinson Look! It’s a three-way slay! Instagram.com/yvettenicolebrown 42 Zendaya Zendaya and the young stars from the American Grace Conservatory Instagram.com/iamericacampbell