![]() ![]() ![]() By featuring all of these talented, beautiful young women, Beyoncé is making a few things clear – at this stage, she wants her legacy, perhaps to her daughter, perhaps to the world, to be one of continuity and collaboration among black women. Twenty-one-year-old model Winnie Harlow, known for proudly showing her vitiligo, is also caught on camera, along with a fabulous cameo from fellow vitiligo-‘afflicted’ Michaela DePrince (also 21), a ballet dancer who was orphaned in Sierra Leone and adopted by at US family when she was four. Clearly, like her sister Solange, she believes in the power of Black Girl Magic, and importantly, she gives space to young black people to shine.Īmandla Stenberg, the teen star who has spent the year being carefree, making short films, exploring their gender identity and championing racial diversity, makes an appearance, as does 19-year-old Disney actress Zendaya Coleman and 12-year-old Beasts of the Southern Wild Oscar winner Quvenzhané Wallis. With Lemonade, she has become role model for young black women, elevating them with her esteemed status as Queen B. This is an album for and about black women – and that, in the current climate, is overtly political. The most neglected person in America is the black woman,” his voice intones on the most angry, rock-inspired song of the album, “Don’t Hurt Yourself”.Īlthough some critics have said that Beyoncé’s latest offering is “more preoccupied with the state of her marriage than it (is) the state of the world”, taken as a package with the visuals, I believe Lemonade sees Beyoncé examining more than her own emotions. ![]() The most unprotected person in America is the black woman. “The most disrespected woman in America is the black woman. On Lemonade, Beyoncé’s new visual album and unashamed exploration of black womanhood, it’s interesting that, on a record which inevitably looks at masculinity through the female lens, the most resounding words come from the mouth of Malcolm X. ![]()
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