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This Costa Rican Beach Town Is A Haven For Weary Black Ex-Pats
This story was featured in the January/February 2023 issue of ESSENCE, on stands now. In early 2021, Aishah White, SVP of Media and Strategic Development at Warner Records, took a vacation to Puerto Viejo de Talamanca, Costa Rica. She was searching for peace for her mind, body and soul. She believed that the stress brought on by her hectic work schedule in Los Angeles, the policies of Donald Trump and the various racial tensions they created were factors that could have contributed to her suffering a life-threatening brain hemorrhage in 2020. The killing of George Floyd made things harder. In its wake, White and many other music-industry heavyweights drove efforts…