From primetime television to cable news, African-American women consume more media than any other comparison groups, and today, there is more mass and targeted content featuring African-American women than ever before. Still, in a 2010 ESSENCE-commissioned study on the State of African American Women, it was revealed that 93 percent of media does only an 'okay' to 'poor' job of reflecting the audience the way they see themselves.This year, Essence commissioned New York-based research firm Added Value Cheskin to bring more attention and definition to these findings with the proprietary study, Understanding Images of African-American Women in Society. [...]