Beyoncé's Lemonade is #blackgirlmagic at its most potent

With its Malcolm X sample and allusions to Yoruba culture, her new record is a Southern Gothic mediatation on black American womanhood across the years“The past and the present merge to meet us here.” So Beyoncé proclaims in teaser videos of her new project, Lemonade. The hour-long HBO special debuted on Saturday night, presenting fans with a whole new “visual album”, her second in that format. Somali-British poet Warsan Shire’s verse from For Women Who Are Diff...

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