In the U.S. (and Commonwealth countries, I think—the U.K. for sure), the president sits at the center of the long table. Easier to see and hear everybody else. Of course, at this particular meeting, this arrangement did not stop Trump from wondering aloud “where’s Rudy?” and looking about inquisitively. Rudy Giuliani…

What I’m most worried about is the future of the Iranian nuclear deal. Hassan Rouhani staked his entire political capital on the idea that a nuclear deal with the US & Europe would be preferable to crippling sanctions and increased isolation. The large youth population is smart, well-educated and wishes to have better…

Bannon (the man who fancies himself to be Lenin, but actually ended up as Rasputin) doesn’t just want to terminate democracy within our own borders—a vision well on its way to being realized.He wants to drop nukes on other people’s countries as well. If somebody doesn’t get him the hell out of the White House, he’s…

I was reading that other story tonight about Prime Minister Abe and the Korean Missile test wherein Trump and his folk were spreading classified documents across the dinner table, using cell phone light to illuminate them (provided by Bannon and at least one other person) and the waiters just sort of came and went…

That’s the first person I thought of! Strange Fruit is considered a stand out in the American song catalogue (which it is) but also kind of an anomaly only because it was so political for the time it was recorded. I keep hearing the same thing about the songs on Lemonade but the subject matter isn’t new - the…

If you look up extra in the dictionary this would be the definition. Did we really need a 10 minute performance by Beyonce about everyone worshiping Beyonce?

I don’t think we’re taking crazy pills as much as white people can’t do more than two light skin black girls at a time.

I just wish people (black women included) spent as much energy giving support to the other black women out there as they give to Beyonce. There are so many different voices, styles, and stories that are out there. I see so many black female singers getting torn down, made fun of, embarrassed for even trying and…

I mean she sang beautifully! it looked beautiful! but it just didn’t do it for me.

THANK YOU. I’m like, “Does no one remember Black women singers like Mary J. Blige, Faith Evans, Aretha Franklin, Billie Holiday, Bessie Coleman and dozens more who absolutely crossed over into the mainstream who have long put Black folks’ and women’s front and center? Am I taking crazy pills?”

Haha It’s the internet, I won’t be bothered. And that is exactly what my problem is every time I see Beyonce mentioned. There are a lot of black women out there working hard to build a career, yet everyone who says that they’re here to support black women can’t seem to find the energy to support anyone besides…

People who were wondering ‘how she would handle the performance being as pregnant as she is’ are stupid, stupid people. The media really needs to stop with it.

That line in Formation about the “negro nose with Jackson 5 nostrils” made me, a Korean American, so proud of my flat, non-European nose for the first time.

Currently in a spat on Facebook over someone who I considered a friend a long time ago complaining that Beyonce is ‘everything that is wrong with the Grammy’s’ (not my spelling). She believes that the Grammys should celebrate the music and not the visuals because ‘that’s what the VMAs are for’. Beyonce’s performance…

Why? That performance was the continuation of her selling her pregnancy to the public like she’s the only woman to every carry babies before. Her ‘enlightened mother’ schtick has been insufferable since her daughter’s birth, but now her pregnancy is a commodity, it’s her brand, and it’s condescending and obnoxious.…

All of this. I am here for this elevation of the femininity of black women. I am also here for this grand celebration of motherhood, especially black motherhood, in the time of black lives matters. Maybe I’m reading a lot into it, but I am here for the over-the-top celebration of black femininity because for too long,…

I felt the same way about this performance. It was like a very long commercial for having a baby.

I think Lemonade felt like it represented more than just her personal experience, It went beyond it. becoming a work of art. maybe it was the introduction from her mother that set it up to be read this way, or given the fact that the other women on stage were her handmaidens - not her equals (whereas in other…

Is it just me or does her outfit remind anyone else a little of a much more modest and much more gold version Aaliyah’s from Queen of the Damned? Especially the pointy headdress and collar.

Yes! The chair is the true star of the performance! It had one job to do and it nailed it!