I can't even muster an opinion of the anything that happened last night. Like, maybe if the awards actually indicated something about an artist who has one, I would totally find it relevant. But instead I have this weird little voice that pops up mid-thought squealing "WHO CAREEESSSSS!!!!" The voice kinda sounds like…

I've been listening to Ledisi for a good chunk of the morning and she is just so good. I'm kind of bummed that she didn't have the opportunity to wow people on such a big stage.

I did not like Beyoncé's version. I thought I just didn't like the song. Thanks for posting this. This is beautiful.

Right, she wasn't bad or anything, but her voice doesn't quite have the quality necessary to give this all the weight that it commands.

There are so many underrated black female artists. Janelle Monae, Esperanza Spalding, Jazmine Sullivan, Ledisi, Elle Varner...I could go on forever.

I think the big takeaway from this is. It's ultimately our fault. Maybe if we took Beyonce off and just had her in the right amount of doses, we would be happier. Beyonce is not all things, she is only some of the things and that is ok. There are other black women in the world besides beyonce who also sing. And we…

Well that just makes it worse, imo. She's seen the movie, she knows it's ledisi's song. She's Beyonce. Here she had an opportunity to help out a fellow black female singer. She could have gone to the grammy's and said hey that's ledisi's song how about she sing it before common an John, and the grammys would have been…

Thank you so much for posting this! I haven't had a chance to see Selma yet, and I honestly don't think I've heard this song performed before I saw the Grammys last night. This version gave me chills. Don't get me wrong I love Beyoncé, but I'm glad I got to hear this song performed right.

Bey would never sing WITH Ledisi because Ledisi would blow her out the water. I enjoy Beyonce's entertainment

Beck should have sung it.

Except if Ledisi was able to perform at the Grammys, she'd gain a much wider audience, one that Beyonce already has.

We all win, except the lesser known artist who could have seen a sales bump from performing.

Thank You! Even my dumb atheist ass knows gospel songs need some church, some oomph, some gut punch. Beyonce had none.

Yeah I think it's a complicated situation for all the reasons you listed but that just wasn't her song to sing. It would have been nice if they could have had Ledisi sing and incorporate Beyoncé in another way. I am the biggest Beyoncé fan ever but it's not because her vocals are exceptional. She just doesn't have the…

I think that women hate other women just as much as men hate other men, but is painted as a "thing" in order to 'other' women and simultaneously reinforce the concept that white dudes are individuals while anyone outside of that group is homogenous with their own group.

How dare you question the obvious contradictions in Emma's narrative! Heresy! Rape apologist! Patriarchy!

Is it that it's taken as fact? Or is it that there's actually a substantial body of evidence required before we consider it fair to punish a person accused of a crime?

Are you kidding? To just assume an accuser is telling the truth (or lying) without looking into the matter is extremely irresponsible. The reality is that women are raped and women fabricate being raped. I'm not going to throw out some study claiming to the know the percent (like you could ever determine…

It's called innocent 'till proven guilty, and it's not exclusive for rape accusations. You get the same thing with any accusation of a crime. The accused is always given the benefit of the doubt in the absence of damning, hard evidence.