Tiffany Haddish, Queen Latifah, Vivica A. Fox, Ledisi, Mary J. Blige & More of Your Fave Celebs spotted at Day 1 of the 2018 Essence Festival

The 2018 Essence Festival is currently underway in New Orleans, Louisiana, and there have been quite a number of exciting activities already for the first day, which was Thursday 5th of July.

Known as “the party with a purpose”, the Essence Festival is an annual music festival to celebrate African-American culture and music.

See photos of Tiffany Haddish, Queen Latifah, Vivica A. Fox, Ledisi, Mary J. Blige and more at various events during Day 1 of the festival.

Tiffany Haddish

Queen Latifah

Vivica A. Fox

Mary J. Blige

Naturi Naughton

Ne-Yo

Lena Waithe

Regina King

Angela Yee

Regina Hall

Maxine Waters

Luvvie Ajayi

Remy Ma

Ledisi

MC Lyte

Amandla Stenberg

Photo Credit: Getty Images/Paras Griffin | Marianna Massey | Christopher Polk | Bennett Raglin |