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February 2016

formation: beyoncé’s love letter to black lives matter

By lcannon|2019-10-04T17:07:08-04:00February 8th, 2016|Tags: #AllBlackLivesMatter, #BlackLivesMatter, #BlackPower, #BlackWomenMatter, #SB50, African-American, Alabama, All Black Lives Matter, ancestry, bama, Beyoncé, Big Freedia, Black, Black Lives Matter, Black men, Black Panther Party, Black Panthers, Black Power, Black Pride, Black shit, Black women, Black Women Matter, Blue Ivy, Bounce, Bruno Mars, Coldplay, formation, halftime show, Jay-Z, LGBTQ, Louisiana, New Orelans, New Orleans, peak Blackness, police, pro-Black, queer, slay, solidarity, Super Bowl, Super Bowl 50, Texas, Tidal, twerking|

Within a span of less than five minutes this past Saturday, Beyoncé celebrated Black men, women, children and our overarching culture with the most pro-Black video I've seen for some [...]

October 2015

culture shock: the politics of black representation on tv

By lcannon|2019-10-04T17:07:08-04:00October 7th, 2015|Tags: 90210, ABC, African-American, Black, Black people, Black representation, Black women, cultural, culture critique, culture shock, demonization of Black women, Grey's Anatomy, historical trajectory, history, hypersexualized, idiot box, networks, politics, prime time, Private Practice, programming, Shonda Rhimes, strong black woman, television, The CW, TV, women|

Editor's Note: The following piece was written in 2010. Two of the television shows dissected herein have since been canceled and no longer air, but may be viewed on Netflix, [...]