Showing posts with label Solange Knowles. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Solange Knowles. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 11, 2016

'Family Guy' Parodies Jay Z-Solange Elevator Fight



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Sunday, October 9, 2016

Solange Knowles Earns First No. 1 Album with 'A Seat At The Table'


TheFader.com:
On September 30, Solange released her powerful, yet vulnerable third studio album A Seat at the Table. On the same day, Bon Iver also released their highly-anticipated third studio album 22, A Million, which was originally predicted to take the No. 1 slot. The expansive 22, A Million release would have been the Wisconsin band's first album to debut at No. 1.

Today, Billboard reports that Solange has earned her first No. 1 album with A Seat at the Table, which sold 72,000 equivalent album units in its first week. Solange's project narrowly beats Bon Iver's 22, A Million, which debuts at No. 2 with 71,000 units. 

Solange and Beyoncé are now one of the only sibling pairs to debut a solo project at No. 1 within the same year. Earlier this year, Beyoncé earned her 6th No. 1 album with Lemonade. Previously, Michael and Janet Jackson accomplished the feat in 2001 with Invincible and All For You, respectively.

Tuesday, September 13, 2016

Solange Knowles Writes Powerful Essay on Her Personal Experiences with Racial Discrimination


TIME.com:

"The tone just simply says, 'I do not feel you belong here.'”

Solange Knowles wrote a thought-provoking essay about her experience with harassment at a popular German electronic dance music group Kraftwerk’s concert in New Orleans over the weekend.
Knowles had taken to Twitter to share an incident in which her family reported that a group of women threw a half-eaten lime at her, noting that she and her family were among a handful of audience members who were people of color at the concert space. Her story thus shared, Knowles then endured racist harassment on social media. In her essay, And Do You Belong? I Do on her website, Saint Heron, she elaborated on her experience.
“You hear women yell aggressively, ‘Sit down now, you need to sit down right now‘ from the box behind you,” Knowles wrote. “You want to be considerate, however, they were not at all considerate with their tone, their choice of words, or the fact that you just walked in and seem to be enjoying yourself. You are also confused as to what show you went to. This is a band that were pioneers of electronic and dance music. Surely the audience is going to expect you to dance at some point.”
Knowles also voiced her thoughts on misconceptions about her social media statements.
“You know when you share this that a part of the population is going to side with the women who threw trash at you. You know that they will come up with every excuse to remove that huge part of the incident and make this about you standing up at a concert ‘blocking someone’s view’…You realize that you never called these women racists, but people will continuously put those words in your mouth. What you did indeed say is, ‘This is why many black people are uncomfortable being in predominately white spaces,’ and you still stand true to that.”
Knowles goes on to provide additional examples of prejudice from being racially profiled on a train in Italy to hearing a racial epithet in her third grade classroom.

Saturday, July 16, 2016

Solange Knowles Shares Why She Joined a Black Bank


TheRoot.com:
Solange Knowles isn’t just talking about it, she’s being about it when it comes to supporting black businesses. The singer recently shared her reasons why she decided to join a black-owned bank.

“While I realize this is a very personal decision and thing to share, I’m proud to say I made that step today,” Solange said on Instagram. “Time to literally put my money where my mouth is.”

Solange posted a link from a 2013 HBCU Money article that listed a number of black-owned banks in the U.S. Although she advised that she couldn’t vouch for the banks listed, it’s pretty safe to say that with $4.7 billion in assets, these banks aren’t mom-and-pop institutions.

Monday, March 21, 2016

Beyonce Knowles Held ‘Alice in Wonderland’ Tea Party for Daughter Blue Ivy Before She Hits the Road





Yahoo.com:

Beyoncé has shared some seriously adorable photos from an Easter-themed tea party with daughter Blue Ivy and sister Solange.

Bey shared the photos of the three celebrating the Spring season and all things Easter on her website, with a smiling Blue Ivy looking too darn cute in her pink dress.

Solange, meanwhile, looked gorgeous in a blue ensemble, while Beyoncé keep it casual in jeans and a coat.

The ‘Single Ladies’ singer obviously had a bit of fun with editing before posting the photos, giving Blue some pink and white bunny ears and putting some teeny tiny rabbits in Solange’s hands.

In a few photos, she’s given her sweet daughter a gorgeous flower headband, while in others, she’s played around with different backgrounds.