“When I decided to do Coachella, instead of me pulling out my flower crown, it was more important that I brought our culture.”

I’m sure you’ve watched Beyoncé’s Netflix film Homecoming by now (and if you haven’t, you’re seriously missing out).

Anyone who knows me knows I love Beyoncé (I mean, who doesn’t?), so I was ecstatic last year when I found out she was headlining Coachella, the first Black woman to do so. As Beyoncé says in the film, “ain’t that about a bitch.”

I never got into the hype that is Coachella, but it was Beyoncé, so Netflix gave me the next best thing.

The film, named after the homecoming events that are HUGE at HBCUs, shows the full Coachella performance and gives you a behind the scenes look at the eight-month rehearsal period.

In recent years, Coachella has come under fire for anti-LGBTQ behavior and of course, the overly common cultural appropriating fashion.

So, it’s not exactly the most diverse event of the year. But by highlighting the beauty that is blackness, Bey called Coachella out through her performance.

Not only did she give a performance masterpiece, but she gave Coachella guests and millions of Netflix subscribers an inside look of American Black culture, particularly when it comes to historically black colleges and universities, more commonly known as HBCUs.

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