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In 2016, that’s precisely what Beyoncé Knowles-Carter did. Lemonade, Beyoncé’s sixth album, garnered enormous praise and widespread pop cultural attention for both its raw and open lyrical ...

Tidal, the music streaming service part-owned by Beyonce and husband Jay-Z, which is currently the only place you download the album, describes Lemonade as being about ‘every woman’s journey ...

Her mastery of the medium matched that of Madonna and Michael Jackson in the 1980s - with the videos for her Lemonade album acting as a powerful celebration of black womanhood and female power.

So much for that. With Lemonade—an album, an Emmy-nominated film and, as America looked on, an experience—Beyoncé publicly embraced explicitly feminist blackness at a politically risky moment.