Wednesday, 32 year-old Philando Castile was shot as he reached for his wallet during a traffic stop in Minnesota. Beyoncé has responded to the tragedies in a post on her website called ‘Freedom’ (also the name of her song with Kendrick Lamar on Lemonade). She issues an urgent call to action: ‘It is up to us to take a stand and demand that they ‘stop killing us.’ Read the full essay below.
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Beyoncé’s response follows her sister Solange’s cover of Syreeta’s ‘Black Maybe,’ an open letter from Drake, and reactions from Chance the Rapper, Questlove, Blood Orange, Shamir, and more.
