Black Lives Matter Movement Timeline

"When life gives you lemons, make lemonade" this is an old phrase used to inspire hopefulness and an encouraging, positive can-do attitude in the wake of hardship or disaster. Lemons symbolize the inevitable sourness or difficulties in life, while lemonade is the sweet drink that is the product of the lemons. Often life offers trivial disappointments with almost no explanation and sometimes it seems almost impossible to break the misfortunate spell. However, for some people, each mishap in their lives leave them not only perplexed but eager to see the glass half full rather than empty. Beyoncé is a prime example of making the best out of a bitter situation. On April 23, 2016, Beyonce released her groundbreaking fully visual album “Lemonade”. Lemonade debuted as number one album on the billboard charts and allowed Beyoncé to have the biggest first-week sales count. Nevertheless, with greatness comes a few flaws and “Lemonade” was no stranger to faults. To some, “Lemonade” was the cultural awakening that they needed but for many it was the conversation starter that would strike both emotionally and politically which is why it is such a powerful album but an even more important conversational piece.

“Bodies” explores how an understanding of feminized media is in part governed by a gendered understanding of the body, as well as how individuals use feminized forms of media in order to push and redefine the boundaries of the “feminine.” Authors Barbara L. Ley, Kyra Hunting, Michele White, and Beretta Smith-Shomade examine pregnancy apps, fashion, nail polish, and embodied spirituality, analyzing the twenty-first century understanding of the feminine body

Referencing people who have lost their lives because of their gender and the color of their skin is supposed to show that the world is not perfect and mistakes have been made in the past. As she calls for self-appreciation and love, she also calls for unity and growth. Beyoncé teaches her listeners that they must understand and learn from their history to create a better future for tomorrow and the generations to come. The title Lemonade is a seemingly perfect node to taking the ingredients of life to create a meaningful and bright future. Beyoncé explains that although life may seem dark and gloomy, there is always a light at the end of the

Beyonce’s “Lemonade” album gained a lot of praises for its artistic portrayal of various emotions, but it also displayed the pop singer’s twisted understanding of Christianity.

Beyoncé’s Lemonade deep expression of her artistic talents. In my opinion, this is best work to date due to the depth of the project. It only made sense to premiere the visual album on HBO, the king of prestige television. Lemonade on the surface sheds light into the life of Beyoncé, allowing fans to be exposed into her life more than ever. Beyoncé highlights her feeling on the highly-published infidelity of her father and former manager, Matthew Knowles as well as sharing that her husband Shawn “Jay-Z” Carter was allegedly doing the same thing as her father. This exposure of Beyoncé captivates the viewer, However, this purely a metaphor for what Lemonade is about. Lemonade is regarding the relationship between the World and the Black woman.

Beyonce’s Visual Album presents itself to viewers and music lovers as a statement in self-determination. Sometimes that determination comes in different forms, like the determination to broadcast a subject that should be given more attention but does not in our communities. After many months of anticipation, Beyonce released her self titled album overnight two weeks before the Christmas holiday on December 13th, 2013. After only three days on sale, Beyonce 's album broke the U.S. iTunes Store 's record for the largest sales week for an album. Her influence on pop culture and message through her music is undeniable.

Beyonce is an African American female artist making incorporating empowering messages for women around the world. She is creating work that speaks to an audience that might not receive authentic mainstream. Beyonce ultimate goal is to visually and sonically entice wisdom through her music. Recently in a shocking video release, Beyonce debuted a new song “Formation” as well as a politically charged music video. This song was an uproar in the music industry worldwide. Millions of people around the world negatively viewed this song as a controversy. The music video and song caused many people to debate and cause a worldwide conflict.

Who runs the world? Beyoncé Knowles, or Queen B for short, is one of the feminist leaders in today’s world. People may view her as conforming to society, but I see her as being an independent woman by expressing her erotic feelings for her own pleasure. Thought her videos and lyrics, she expresses her feelings and uses her body as freely as she wants with no restraints. These women, Audre Lorde and bell hooks, helped me look into deeper meanings, things I never would have thought of on a normal day.

The Black Lives Matter movement has swept across America. It 's branched out with chapters in over 31 cities and held rallies and boycotts across the United States(Sidner). The Black Lives Matter movement started with the outrage of the death of a young man. It continues to take over headlines and raise awareness on police brutality and inequality. However, the movement has met resistance from the All Lives Matter group. This group thinks that Black Lives Matter is a movement to express hatred towards other races. However, statistics, the views of fellow citizens, and the overall purpose of the Black Lives Matter movement, can prove that the movement wasn 't meant to express hate on other races and that we need to support the movement instead of going against it.

These depictions lead female adolescents and peoples of color to perceive themselves as useful but not important in society which causes them to interact and behave differently with others. While these characters have many positive qualities, they are shoved into stereotypical and archetypical boxes that reduces their worth to the viewers. The female characters provide strong examples of women towards young viewers but are followed up with a reason why the female character should be put in a corner. The characters of color have noble intentions and are respected but pushed to the sidelines when their cause gets show time by the male protagonists. Thus, while these characters do provide positive and influential examples to adolescent viewers, the characters have easily definable qualities that can negatively affect the viewers. As such, young viewers can follow either the vigilantism or heroism route since they are impressionable by huge media figures. This suggests that directors and creators of superhero television shows should diversify their cast with a purpose to express that women and minorities can break social barriers and are important to

“I don’t know which of us has been more blind… you, in your refusal to adapt to a changing world… or me for following you this far down your well intentioned path” - Wonder Woman. After viewing the documentary film “Wonder Women! The Untold Story of American Super heroines” viewers might find be asking themselves how they have been blind to realizing women today are still allowing themselves to be dictated by men. Women have been restricted to fill stereotypical roles on screen as well as off. In the documentary interviewers find it hard to name even a few female superheroes that have played the lead in a movie. Consider the few that have landed

Upon viewing both superhero films: The Incredibles and Wonder Woman, I was able to identify the distinctions between gender roles and gender portrayals among the characters presented. This analysis will include the comparison between both films and how they’ve immersed into a world of mainstream consciousness, as well as examining the typical and atypical ways in how male and female superheroes are portrayed. Furthermore, we’ll be demonstrating the transfiguration of mass media throughout the past decade and where it stands as of late.

Live at Oprah Winfrey’s final show, “Oprah’s Secret Spectacular”, Beyoncé staged a striking artistic performance that was viewed as an amazing piece of entertainment. The simple yet effective jazz-funk choreography perfectly complimented her live rendition of ‘Run the World’. The eye-catching costumes created a powerful atmosphere, showcasing the females on stage as strong and independent. The performance presents the ideas of women being commanding, in control and powerful individuals who, in Beyoncé’s eyes, “Run the World”. The key message of Beyoncé’s performance is that females have become so empowered, that they are equally as good as men at anything they set their minds to, which is continuously shown through the lyrics, costuming and

Set on the aphorism of "when life serves you lemons, make lemonade," (as you will hear delivered by Jay-Z's grandmother), Beyoncé presents her first narrative, bringing back warm memories of Destiny's Child's Destiny Fulfilled. Lemonade's trajectory, however, isn't as victorious and joyous. It's an acutely desolate voyage through the experience of infidelity, each song exploring various emotional stages, like unease, paranoia, inferiority, fury and longing. These stages are broken down and expounded on in the partnering mini-film of the same title (aired on HBO on 4/23), where her main character's micro dilemma is used to discuss interrelated, macro gender and familial issues, like generational abuse, unfaithfulness and paternal abandonment. Touched on are the sacrifices and

On April 23, Beyonce and Warsan Shire debuted an empowering visual album titled Lemonade in an HBO special dedicated to Black women. It depicted the journey of self-knowledge and healing through stages over a period of time; in the following order intuition, denial, anger, apathy, emptiness, loss, accountability, reformation, forgiveness,resurrection, hope, and redemption. Within each segment lies a woman dealing with her internal demons, societal pressure set against her, her relationship to those close to her, and the connection that she has to the world around her. All the while using haunting imagery to emphasize the power of her story that connects her to the past, present, and future through the art of cinematography, music and poetry.