MIA's Black Lives Matter faux pas shows she doesn't know her history

Muslim and African American struggles have been aligned for years, yet MIA setting them up as binary opposites is a falsehood that’s been exploited before It would be an understatement to say rapper MIA is no stranger to controversy. But her strikingly transparent candidness is part of her global appeal. Perhaps a little too transparent sometimes, as is the case with her latest PR snafu in The Evening Standard, when a reporter asked her for her thoughts on Beyoncé’s black power ...

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