How Beychella created a moment in history!

The Coachella festival has evolved since Beyoncé became the first black woman to headline the festival's main stage. 

The singer showed her black pride with an African American college-themed homecoming tribute, which unveiled symbolic aesthetics, a marching band and drum-line, and her rendition of “Lift Every Voice and Sing”.

Beyoncé’s Balmain wardrobe featured a crest which read “Beyoncé 2018” with imagery of an Egyptian royal, a black fist, a black panther and a bee – a reminder of her stand for black rights.

Beyoncé made it a historical performance scouting a full-fledged ensemble of marching band and drum-line members from historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) to build a pep rally production.

Chance The Rapper dubbed it the best performance in history!

The inclusion of the 1899 poem written by a school principal named James Weldon Johnson “Lift Every Voice and Sing” is historically recognised by the black community. It was a call for action he delivered on the anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s birthday.

Beyoncé said in her September Issue of Vogue "I know that most of the young people on the stage and in the audience did not know the history of the black national anthem before Coachella. But they understood the feeling it gave them."

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