PHOTOS: SUMMER OF OWN ESSENCE COCKTAIL PARTY IN NOLA

Photo credit: Courtesy of OWN/Photographer: Peter Forest The Summer of OWN Cocktail Party at Legacy Kitchen’s Craft Tavern in New Orleans on Saturday, July 6. 

OWN President Tina Perry, Gayle King 

THE HAVES AND THE HAVE NOTS: Angela Robinson (“The Haves and The Have Nots”) 

AMBITIONS: Brian White (“Ambitions” 

QUEEN SUGAR: Kofi Sirboie, Rutina Wesley, Bianca Lawson, Ava DuVernay, Omar Dorsey, Tina Lifford, Dawn-Lyen Gardner, and Tanyell Waivers 

Gayle King

Brely Evans (“Ambitions”), Alana Arenas (“David Makes Man”), Akili McDowell (“David Makes Man”) 

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