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So much for that. With Lemonade—an album, an Emmy-nominated film and, as America looked on, an experience—Beyoncé publicly embraced explicitly feminist blackness at a politically risky moment.

On Saturday evening Beyonce dropped Lemonade, and it seems the world hasn’t been able to stop talking about it since. Following on from her Super Bowl performance of Formation, the surprise ...