The Lineage of ‘Lemonade’
From Ma Rainey to Beyoncé, here are the ladies who tell it how it is
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6 min readJun 24, 2020
When Beyoncé released her visual album, Lemonade, in 2016, fans were overtaken by the imagery and odes to Blackness and womanhood, but they were also intrigued by her personal story of Jay-Z’s infidelity during their eight-year marriage. Beyoncé used her music to intentionally share experiences many women…
