Black Empowerment: Thoughts into Words

Fourth Entry


The class watched a music video of Beyonce entitled "Formation". The music video became controversial due to its sensitive content. It contains racial discrimination and a glimpse of police harassment mostly to black people. It uncovers an issue almost transparent to everyone's eyes. Formation contains strong political criticism in its lyrics, a song whose lyrics are teeming with notions of empowerment and pride.

In the light of this, every group was assigned to construct a wordle that best explains the music video. In no less than thirty minutes and after quite some time of brainstorming, the group was able to come up with this output:


Documentation: (Helping hands)








List of Dancers/ Members: (present)

Patalinghug, Kerr
Celiz, Ramon Hope
Defuntorum, Kent
Jumawan, Reycil
Tagsip, Sean
Manus, Ma. Lourdes
Pogoy, Rinelle Frances


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