Nicki Minaj attends The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute benefit gala celebrating the opening of the "Camp: Notes on Fashion" exhibition on May 6, 2019, in New York. Janet Jackson, Kevin Hart and Nicki Minaj are among the headliners announced Thursday, March 3, 2022, for this summer's Essence Festival of Culture, which returns to New Orleans after a two-year hiatus brought on by the coronavirus pandemic. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)