As word of the death of Barbara Cheeseborough spread, tributes for ESSENCE’s first cover model have been coming in. The trailblazing model died of colon cancer in Pomona, California on Thursday, ...

ESSENCE magazine’s very first cover model and trailblazer, Barbara Cheeseborough, died of colon cancer on Thursday, October 24th in Pomona, California. She was 67. According to the Philadelphia ...

The face on the first issue of Essence signaled the new magazine was reaching out to a different audience: young black women interested in... If you were black and female and grew up in the '70s, you ...

Barbara Cheeseborough was a high fashion model who graced the first edition of Essence Magazine. Cheeesborough died on Thursday, Oct. 24, 2013 of colon cancer in Phillips Ranch, Calif. She was 67.

Barbara Cheeseborough, best known as the first model to cover ESSENCE magazine in 1970, has died from colon cancer. According to the Philadelphia Daily News, the 67-year-old beauty was living in ...

If you were black and female and grew up in the '70s, you were used to looking at pretty white women on the covers of major fashion and beauty magazines. If you wanted to borrow their look, you had to ...