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He remembers that when she first played for him and the other counselors, “it blew us all away.” When camp was over, Wooten asked Divinity to tour with him and his band. “She was a hit every night,” he says. “She was just riveting and powerful, and just electric on stage.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13905907\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13905907\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/gettyimages-72620874_wide-9d502dc0850906fc0e56fee7cf51f9fe1c99108b-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/gettyimages-72620874_wide-9d502dc0850906fc0e56fee7cf51f9fe1c99108b-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/gettyimages-72620874_wide-9d502dc0850906fc0e56fee7cf51f9fe1c99108b-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/gettyimages-72620874_wide-9d502dc0850906fc0e56fee7cf51f9fe1c99108b-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/gettyimages-72620874_wide-9d502dc0850906fc0e56fee7cf51f9fe1c99108b-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/gettyimages-72620874_wide-9d502dc0850906fc0e56fee7cf51f9fe1c99108b-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/gettyimages-72620874_wide-9d502dc0850906fc0e56fee7cf51f9fe1c99108b-2048x1152.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/gettyimages-72620874_wide-9d502dc0850906fc0e56fee7cf51f9fe1c99108b-1920x1080.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Divinity Roxx (R) on stage with guitarist Bibi McGill (C) and Beyoncé (L), performing “Irreplaceable” at the 2006 American Music Awards. \u003ccite>(Ethan Miller/Getty Images))\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Divinity never heard Beyoncé say “I’m tired”\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Divinity was over the moon. 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McDonald’s President and CEO Chris Kempczinski hinted this month that more celebrity meals may be coming, according to \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/food/2021/07/29/mcdonalds-saweetie-menu-meal-celebrity-famous-orders/5409895001/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">USA Today\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In May, McDonald’s announced \u003ca href=\"https://corporate.mcdonalds.com/corpmcd/en-us/our-stories/article/press-releases.diverse-owned-media.html\">new investments in diverse-owned media \u003c/a>content for the company in an effort to further reflect its diverse customers, workers and communities in its marketing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the next four years, the company says it will allocate advertising dollars to diverse-owned media companies, production houses and content creators. With Black-owned properties specifically, McDonald’s says its diverse-owned media partners will increase from 2% to 5% of the company’s national advertising spending over time.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Representation of diversity is on the rise among major brands\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In the past year, many brands and companies have become noticeably more inclusive, featuring more Black and other minorities in their ads and marketing materials as a way to take a stand against racism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following George Floyd’s murder last May, companies across the globe began issuing various calls to action—including more diversity in advertising, increased spending on diverse companies and investing a greater amount of money in minority-owned media companies—in an effort to connect with Black and brown consumers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With the uprising and the advocacy and the demands after the murder of George Floyd, really there’s been a spotlight shining on the importance of highlighting and making space for Black people, specifically Black women,” said Alfredo Del Cid, head of learning and development at Collective, a diversity, equity and inclusion consulting firm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A number of major brands have struck deals with major Black celebrities in an effort to maintain and expand their consumers of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this year, Uber Eats partnered with \u003ca href=\"https://adage.com/creativity/work/simone-biles-and-jonathan-van-ness-are-duo-you-never-realized-you-needed-uber-eats-matchup-ads/2288491\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Olympian Simone Biles\u003c/a>, featuring the star gymnast in its ads and TV commercials around the time of the Tokyo Olympics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VKeiNjM-AM\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://media.cadillac.com/media/us/en/cadillac/vehicles/ct4-v/2021.detail.html/content/Pages/news/us/en/2020/sep/0930-cadillac-technologies.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cadillac partnered with award-winning actress\u003c/a> Regina King, naming her a brand ambassador and the star for its campaign for the newest line of the Escalade SUV.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And \u003ca href=\"https://news.adidas.com/originals/ivy-park-rodeo--fourth-ivy-park-collection-with-beyonc-/s/2fc39fb5-18b9-45bb-a0de-045df1212125\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Beyoncé partnered with Adidas\u003c/a> to launch her “Ivy Park” clothing collection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s all of these ways that these partnerships are coming together that influence the consumer—because the consumer is ultimately interested in trust, right?” said Christina Ferraz, founder and head consultant of marketing agency Thirty6five.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That trust with the brand is what’s going to make them invest in the brand. 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But in \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/artists/19230778/beyonce\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Beyoncé Knowles\u003c/a>‘ \u003cem>Black Is King\u003c/em>—directed by the star herself and released Friday on the streaming service Disney+—that longing is for the certainty of identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A visual companion to the album \u003ca href=\"https://open.spotify.com/album/552zi1M53PQAX5OH4FIdTx?si=OAg0qvAqRcuZG5nawSf1vQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>The Gift\u003c/em>\u003c/a>—itself a companion to the release of the live-action remake of Disney’s \u003cem>The Lion King\u003c/em>—\u003cem>Black Is King\u003c/em> is a retelling, of sorts, of the same story. This time though, it centers on ideas of Black belonging and regality. How has Blackness existed in the past? What does it mean in the present? How might it look in the future? In this extended metaphor, “king” is a synonym for the innate greatness that has been stolen from Black people the world over. With this project, Beyoncé seeks to restore that greatness to those of her lineage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Knowles has long said she is a visual thinker, and those skills are never more apparent than when she applies them to her music. She is also a consummate collaborator, and as with \u003cem>Homecoming \u003c/em>before it, the sheer scale of this project indicates how much she is able to delegate to others in realizing her creative vision. The music of \u003cem>The Gift\u003c/em> itself draws on the legacy of afrobeat, blending the work of African artists like Burna Boy, Yemi Alade, Tiwa Savage, Nija and Shatta Wale with contributions from Black American artists like Tierra Whack, Pharrell Williams, Childish Gambino and Knowles’ husband, JAY-Z. The visuals, however, stand as a statement on their own, and extend the themes of Knowles’ other directorial outings.[aside postid='arts_11520849']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003cem>Lemonade\u003c/em>, Knowles drew on the symbolism of water to signify rebirth and renewal in her marriage. In \u003cem>Black Is King\u003c/em>, she revisits this motif, but takes it a step further. Here, she graduates from the sea to the stars, imagining a world in which Blackness and Black people are unconstrained by the limits of the earthly world. The water becomes a liminal space—the barrier between the here and the hereafter. The shore is the doorway to true spiritual freedom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the film’s beginning, Beyoncé launches a child in a basket onto the river, echoing the biblical story of Moses. At its end, she collects him again, reborn, renewed and given access to a new, free world after enduring the tribulations of rough waters. In \u003cem>Black Is King\u003c/em>, water is again transformative. Its mythical power is reflected in both the pain of sailing Black people across endless oceans for subjugation and its healing potential to wash away the violence of that history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agCgvFTJeRs\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Black Is King\u003c/em> is, in many ways, an exercise in wandering, searching and seeking a divine identity. In recent years, Knowles’ work has taken a sharp turn towards the politics of representation. From her self-titled album to \u003cem>Homecoming\u003c/em>, she has been exploring and examining the infinite malleability of Black cultural production. In this newest film, she makes that explicit. Using music as a conduit, she tries to be expansive in her view of the creative potential of Black people, taking time to highlight both the extremes of hyper-excellence and the divinity in the mundanity of everyday life.[aside postid='pop_111097']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beyoncé has made it part of her own mission to create divine images of Black people that can be, and obviously are, widely consumed. In some ways, this is a corrective to how Black people have been depicted in the past—lazy degenerates in the U.S., poor and starving in an ill-defined Africa, largely invisible in the Caribbean. But even that deserves interrogation—the idea of a corrective presumes a white gaze. Black people have always found ways to see the beauty and sanctity in each other, so what is there to correct? It also calls into question the limits of a production like this. Beautiful as it is, how does it aid Black people to associate blackness with wealth and riches many of us \u003ca href=\"https://verysmartbrothas.theroot.com/i-hope-my-ancestors-were-goat-herders-not-kings-and-qu-1844593249?utm_medium=sharefromsite&utm_source=verysmartbrothas_twitter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">will never attain in this life\u003c/a>? But capitalist concerns aside, Beyoncé takes great pains to associate Blackness not just with literal kings and queens, but also with community, consciousness and greatness. “I see us reflected in the world’s most heavenly things,” she says. “Black is King.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the critiques of the album in its original form was that it flattened the many distinct cultures and styles of the African continent into an easily consumable product, one that did not begin to approach a comprehensiveness of the sources it pulled from. 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Whose ancestral memory can she reference? \u003cem>Black Is King\u003c/em> marries the mundane and the divine in an effort to reconnect to the forgotten ancestry of all the Black peoples across the diaspora who have been ripped from their history by the violence of slavery and colonialism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before “Already,” John Kani as Rafiki is heard in voiceover: “I know who I am, the question is who are you?” For many Black people, that question skews existential. Who are we without those who came before us? Who are we when we don’t \u003cem>know\u003c/em> who came before us? Beyoncé tries to draw a through-line from the diaspora back to the homeland that connects us, not necessarily to our roots, but to the possibilities that open up when we acknowledge that our lineage has more breadth than we can ever know. But she also asserts that we already have that knowledge within us. “Long live the king, you a king you know it.”[aside postid='pop_103388']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Drawing on the themes of \u003cem>The Lion King—\u003c/em>inheritance, self-identity and determination\u003cem>—\u003c/em>Knowles repurposes the story as a clarion call to Black people. “I never left you and never will,” Mufasa declares. “Remember who you are.” In her vision of Black life and prosperity, the ancestors are all around us and in each other, waiting for us to come home and reclaim them. We merely have to reach out to them. Beyoncé situates power in the body, in the skin and in hair. 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