Beyonce Notes


  • Beyonce delivered her message during performance of new single Formation at halftime during Super Bowl 50
  • Her backing dancers appeared dressed as Black Panthers activists with all-black outfits and signature black berets 
  • Several dancers also appeared in an image holding a piece of paper reading 'justice 4 Martin Woods, a black man shot dead by around a dozen police in San Francisco after refusing to drop a knife
  • The Black Panthers were an armed group involved in the black power movement of the Sixties and Seventies
  • They followed the teachings of men such as Malcolm X, who advocated the use of violence to overcome oppression 



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