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When Beyonce and backup dancers blended Black Panthers with Black Lives Matter at the Super Bowl, they missed their own irony. The NFL in allowing the spectacle on its grandest stage missed, again, its own idiocy.

Asked what she thought of Beyoncé’s black power Super Bowl halftime show honoring Malcolm X, the former Nation of Islam leader’s daughter, Ilyasah Shabazz, said she “absolutely loved it.”

A day after the Super Bowl, people are still parsing over each frame from Beyonce’s halftime performance, trying to glean the messages, both subtle and overt, that made for a stunning display of unapologetic blackness and political activism during one of the most-watched events of the year.

Beyoncé performed a tribute to the militant Black Panthers Party during Sunday evening’s halftime show at Super Bowl 50 that some, including former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, called a blatant attack on law enforcement. But the pop star might have been late to the performance if she hadn’t received a highway-clearing police escort to deliver her to Levi’s Stadium on time.

The part-socialist, part-black nationalist Black Panther Party is headline news again, thanks to Beyonce’s Super Bowl 50 halftime show performance of her song “Formation,”–“a big wet kiss to Black Lives Matter” that pays tribute to the 1960s militant group.

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On the eve of her Super Bowl 50 half time show performance, Beyonce released a politically-charged video, “Formation,” featuring scenes set in the devastated and flooded urban areas of New Orleans and the plush halls of some Louisiana mansions.

The Houston Equal Rights Ordinance — a proposal that would have allowed men to enter women’s bathrooms, showers, and changing areas based on gender identification — was soundly defeated by Houston voters at the ballot box last week. According to one advocate for the now-defunct proposal, pop star Beyoncé bears at least some of the blame for its failure.

First Lady Michelle Obama is out with her first Spotify playlist, featuring female artists in celebration of the “International Day of the Girl.” The songs feature some questionable lyrics.

Beyoncé and Coldplay rocked out, First Lady Michelle Obama launched a new girls’ education initiative, and Leonardo DiCaprio warned of the dangers of climate change as tens of thousands gathered for the fourth annual Global Citizen Festival in New York’s Central Park on Saturday.

First Lady Michelle Obama couldn’t ask for a better role model for her family than Beyoncé Knowles, and while Michelle is known to spend lavishly, so is her hero.

First Lady Michelle Obama sat down with rapper Wale for a rapid-fire interview last week in which she revealed what she’d choose to do if she wasn’t the president’s wife.

The Melbourne skyline will soon look drastically different, now that a skyscraper inspired by Beyoncé has been approved for construction.

Beyoncé celebrated last week’s landmark Supreme Court decision to legalize gay marriage a little bit later than her peers.

Jay-Z and Beyoncé quietly donated tens of thousands of dollars to pay bail for protesters arrested in Ferguson, Missouri and Baltimore, according to an author and collaborator close to the couple.

Last month, Jay-Z and a handful of some of the biggest names in music teamed up to launch Tidal, a new artist-owned streaming music service that would compete with household names like Pandora and Spotify. The concept seemed promising; a new

Celebrities, heeding Benjamin Franklin’s advice that “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure,” are buying up new “top-level” domain names like .porn to prevent cybersquatters or extortionists from besmirching their reputations and/or selling them later for a much higher price.

The Queen of Pop revealed that she is jealous of pop superstar Beyoncés relationship with President Obama, saying that if only she were married to Jay Z, she would “score an invitation” to the White House.

Album of the Year Grammy-winning artist Beck’s father worked on a Beyoncé album in 2006, the Hollywood Reporter confirmed Thursday. Maybe, now that it is known that his dad worked on an album for his Beyoncé, Kanye West will finally concede that Beck is a “real artist.”

A 21-year-old aspiring rapper is suing Jay-Z, claiming to be the rap mogul’s son from a previous relationship.

Untouched photographs from Beyonce’s 2013 L’Oreal ad campaign hit the web Wednesday, which demonstrate the star in her more natural state, but some users on social media were not very receptive…cue Kanye West. Many of the photos reveal a less

Sunday night’s Grammy Awards broadcast was relatively uneventful. Sam Smith won four statues, Taylor Swift danced in her front-row seat (and didn’t win anything), and Pharell Williams brought “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot” to his Hans Zimmer-tweaked rendition of “Happy.”

On E! Network’s post-Grammys coverage, Kanye West followed up on what was an apparent effort to repeat his 2009 MTV Video Music Awards folly, in which he interrupted Taylor Swift and said Beyoncé deserved the year’s best female video award.

Alternative rock artist Beck took home the Album of the Year award at the 2015 Grammys, and as he accepted the accolade, a special guest joined him on stage: Kanye West, and he isn’t happy about it. Beck seemed as

Apparently singer Beyoncé is so “crazy in love” with her nutritional choices, she and trainer Marcos Borges have announced they’re launching a vegan meal delivery service.

Hip hop power couple Beyoncé and Jay Z took time over the holidays to give U.S. troops in Afghanistan and Kuwait a memorable New Year’s Eve.

Beyonce and Jay-Z came under fire from an animal rights group after taking photos with a tiger cub during a recent trip to Thailand.

Country-turned pop star Taylor Swift took the top spot for the third year in a row. This year, she donated of the proceeds of her single “Welcome to New York” to the New York City Public School system.

According to People, the two chart toppers performed the “hands up, don’t shoot” gesture popularized in protests over the death of Ferguson teenager Michael Brown as they celebrated Jay Z’s 45th birthday in Iceland.

Jay-Z and Beyonce just lost out on a $70 million mansion in Beverly Hills to Markus Persson, aka “Notch,” the Swedish creator of the video game Minecraft. The opulent home, complete with a car showroom, move theater, candy room, and

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 16 (UPI) — Beyoncé and Jay Z have been sued by a Hungarian singer who claims her voice is sampled without her permission in the couple’s hit single “Drunk In Love.” Beyonce, 33, released the track on

In what might be one of the more unusual celebrity/product partnerships in recent years, R&B singer Usher’s new single, “Clueless,” will be the prize at the bottom of specially-marked boxes of Honey Nut Cheerios sold exclusively at Walmart. The song

“FEMINIST” blared the stage behind Beyoncé at MTV’s Video Music Awards in August this year. No true megastar would feel the need to declare themselves on the subject one way or another, but the stunt was typical of the neediest,

Musician, feminist, and political activist Annie Lennox went on the record in an interview with Entertainment Tonight last week to clarify what she meant when she said that Beyonce was a “feminist lite” who took the word feminism “hostage” in

A Houston-based radio station has decided to lay off 47 of its employees and retire its news broadcasting program to stream around the clock Beyoncé hits instead. News92 FM Reports the News for the Last Time – Changes to an

British musician Annie Lennox, who is a longtime feminist and political activist, told PrideSource why she believes that Beyoncé is a “feminist lite” or “L-I-T-E” who uses the word as an outlet for self-promotion. She called Beyoncé’s August performance at the