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Here are some photos of Beyonce out and about last Thursday, I just never got around to posting them. I like the idea of hot pink short-shorts more than I like the execution here. I think it’s the pleating that’s throwing it off? Anyway, there has been a sudden influx of Beyonce & Jay-Z stories the past few days, so let’s go through them. Note: over the past year especially, some of the older African-American activists (like Harry Belafonte) have been calling on the younger generation of African-American entertainers, specifically Beyonce and Jay-Z, to become more engaged in social justice movements.

Bey and Jay visited Haiti, apparently. They went with the consent of the Haitian government, and Beyonce posted photos to her Instagram. Some photos were also posted on the American Embassy in Haiti’s website, and the New York Times points out that many people saw B&J’s visit as little more than a short-sighted photo-op. The goal of the visit was to highlight the progress made following the 2010 earthquake, but the coverage around the visit is just about “Bey & Jay want to look charitable.”

Bey and Jay anonymously donated hundreds of thousands of dollars. Allegedly. This came from activist (and Jay-Z’s ghost-writer?) Dream Hampton in what are now deleted social media posts. Hampton claimed that Bey and Jay donated thousands to bail out jailed protesters in Ferguson and Baltimore AND that Bey and Jay have quietly funded some local chapters of Black Lives Matter across the country. If true… good for them. If true, they should get credit for it and it would be great if they were even more public in their support.

Bey and Jay visited Freddie Grey’s family. Grey was the young man killed in police custody in Baltimore, setting off a chain reaction of awfulness in Baltimore. Bey and Jay visited Grey’s family more than a week ago.

Bey and Nicki Minaj released a teaser. It’s for their new single, “Feeling Myself.” The song is being released through Tidal? And Tidal released this clip of the music video. It’s actually pretty cute – I like Bey a lot more when she’s acting silly with girlfriends, like the “7/11” music video. Minaj looks really pretty here too.

Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet.
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