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With When I Get Home, Solange Knowles Reaffirms What It Means to Be a Black Woman, and an Auteur
With When I Get Home, Solange Knowles Reaffirms What It Means to Be a Black Woman, and an Auteur

The album is an attempt, conscious or unconscious, to recalibrate the way black women and art have been pejoratively interlaced.

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Validating Unchecked Anger: Solange, E. E. Cummings, and the Power of Enduring Fury
Validating Unchecked Anger: Solange, E. E. Cummings, and the Power of Enduring Fury

Letting things go is synonymous with grace and release. But there’s another form of release, raw and liberating, that can be found in anger.

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