Students at Yale University will have the opportunity to take a course on pop star Beyoncé in 2025.
Associated Press (AP) reported on monday:
Titled “Beyoncé Makes History: Black Radical Traditions, Culture, Theory, and Politics Through Music,” this one-credit class explores everything from her 2013 self-titled album to this year's genre-defying albums. Focus on the period of. “Cowboy Carter” and how world-famous singers, songwriters, and entrepreneurs have raised awareness and created engagement in social and political ideologies.
Daphne Brooks, professor of African American studies at Yale University, uses the performers' wide repertoire, including footage of live performances, as a “portal” for students to learn about black intellectuals from Frederick Douglass to Toni Morrison. I'm going to.
The pop star became the first black woman to top Billboard's country music chart in February when her single “Texas Hold'em” reached No. 1, according to the Associated Press.
In October, Beyoncé endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris' (Democratic) candidacy for the White House during a rally in Texas that focused primarily on abortion, the outlet reported.
“I'm not here as a celebrity, I'm not here as a politician. I'm here as a mother,” Beyoncé said during a rally in Houston. “A mother who cares deeply about the world that my children and all of our children live in, a world in which we have full control over our bodies, a world in which we are not divided.”
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Beyoncé, who did not perform, ended her speech by introducing Harris, saying, “Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Vice President Kamala Harris, the next president of the United States, with a big, loud Texan welcome.”
Harris lost to former President Donald Trump on November 5, despite attempts by pop stars and other celebrities to back her up.
“President-elect Donald Trump's landslide victory in both the electoral and popular votes signals the decline in the power of Hollywood stars as political influence and message carriers,” Breitbart News said Wednesday. ” reported.
“Hollywood ramped up support for Kamala Harris to deafening levels in the final weeks of the campaign, only to be ultimately ignored by American voters,” he added.
