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Apr 16, 2018 · Culture Desk. Beyoncé’s Triumphant Homecoming at Coachella. By Doreen St. Félix. April 16, 2018. Beyoncé’s Coachella performance, her most comprehensive retrospective to date, underscored not...
- Toni Morrison
- Nina Simone
- W.E.B. Dubois
- Alice Walker
- Marian Wright Edelman
- Reginald Lewis
- Audre Lorde
- Cornel West
- Maya Angelou
Homecoming opens with a quotation from Pulitzer Prize-winning author Toni Morrison, reading “If you can surrender to the air, you can ride it.” Morrison, who wrote critically acclaimed novels including Beloved and Paradise, focuses on the themes of race and the African-American experience in the U.S.; she appeared on the cover of TIMEin January 199...
An accomplished pianist and legendary songstress, Nina Simonewas a key voice of the civil rights movement and blended activism with her music. “Politics was mixed in with so much of what went on…that I remember it now as two sides of the same coin, politics and jazz,” she reflected in her autobiography. In an audio interview played near the start o...
“Education must not simply teach work—it must teach life.” This quotation flashes across the screen, the words of prominent black intellectual W.E.B. DuBois. Born in 1868, DuBois was an African-American civil rights activist revered for his philosophy, activism and advocacy. He graduated from the historically black Fisk University in Nashville, in ...
Acclaimed novelist and poet Alice Walker also appears in Homecoming through a quotation: “Our mothers and grandmothers…moving to music not yet written.” A graduate of Spelman College in Atlanta, Walker is best known for her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Color Purple, depicting the relationships of African-American women in rural Georgia. The boo...
“You can’t be what you can’t see.” These words appear from Marian Wright Edelman, the first woman admitted to the Mississippi State Bar. Now 79, Edelman has dedicated her life to highlighting injustice and inequality, and founded the Children’s Defense Fundin 1973 to protect children and support families. Edelman’s quotation in the film is echoed b...
“Keep going, no matter what” was the ethos of African-American businessman Reginald Lewis, who became one of America’s richest black men in 1987 when he engineered the largest offshore buyout in American history at the time. His ferocious work ethic was legendary among his Wall Street peers. His life was cut short after an illness and he died at th...
Feminist Audre Lorde was a leading essayist and critic, whose work centered on race, gender, sexuality. One of her most well-known essays, “The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House,” is a rallying cry for solidarity and action in the face of racism, homophobia and oppression. “Without community, there is no liberation” is a quotat...
Provocative philosopher and activist Cornel West makes a voiceover appearance in Homecoming, citing musicians Curtis Mayfield, John Coltrane and Nina Simone as examples of hope. He encourages listeners to be people of integrity. West is currently a professor of philosophy and African-American studies at Harvard University, a leading commentator on ...
“What I really want to do is be a representative of my race, of the human race,” says literary titan Maya Angelou in a voiceover towards the end of Homecoming, delivered in her distinctly captivating tone. “I have a chance to show how kind we can be, how intelligent and generous we can be.” Born Marguerite Annie Johnson in 1928, Angelou’s acclaimed...
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Homecoming: A Film by Beyoncé is a 2019 documentary concert film about American singer Beyoncé and her performance at the 2018 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. She wrote, executive-produced, and directed the film.
- Brittany Spanos
- Beyoncé always wanted to attend an HBCU. While planning the show — which prominently featured a marching band, step-team choreography and Greek-life lettering — Beyoncé thought hard about her own history.
- Her pregnancy wasn’t easy — and neither was the recovery process. Carrying Rumi and Sir Carter was the reason why Beyoncé had to delay her first scheduled appearance at Coachella in 2017, but she had never previously spoken about how distressing the pregnancy turned out to be.
- Beyoncé is a tough boss. Some of the film’s best scenes include the pop diva sternly but kindly dragging her team who seem to have a hard time grasping her highly specific vision.
- But she’s also in awe of her collaborators. Beychella may have been Beyoncé’s show, but the artist found herself inspired daily by the musicians, dancers, singers, crew members and creative team that helped her put it together.
Apr 24, 2019 · Since nothing with Beyoncé is ever simple, Homecoming: The Live Album has something a little extra: two bonus tracks seamlessly slip in at the end. The first, casually preceded by the final howls of the audience, is “Before I Let Go,” a cover of the 1981 Maze and Frankie Beverly classic.
Apr 18, 2019 · Photograph Courtesy Parkwood Entertainment. “Homecoming,” directed by Beyoncé, is a triumphant self-portrait, a major statement of a concert movie, and, also, with its interpolated bits...
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Apr 18, 2019 · Beyoncé's Netflix documentary Homecoming is much more than a film about the first black woman to headline the Coachella music festival.
