Michael Eric Dyson

Michael Eric Dyson Instagram – 8/9/23 8:11pm
It is 44 minutes before her show in Charlotte. The most gifted entertainer the globe has ever seen is improbably serene in her spacious yet understated dressing room. She is sheathed in a modest charcoal tee shirt that pays quiet tribute to her riveting world tour. There is little to suggest the storm of Black genius she is about to rain down on her eagerly waiting audience. She has graciously invited me into her placid makeshift sanctum to say hello — permitting me to thank her for her excellence on and off stage. But it is she who, in her astonishing humility, offers gratitude for the love and support shown her. All the while as we speak her daughter and niece play at the edges of our conversation, and like the great mother she is, she juggles her maternal care with sweet attention to the flow and substance of our pleasant encounter. All of us hug and pray and exchange love and affection for the Spirit of the Most High reflected in our midst, and then we snap this photo and I disappear into the crowd to witness a spectacle the likes of which we have rarely seen. I carry within me the incandescent memory of this great artist, woman, wife, mother, daughter, sister, feminist, humanitarian, friend, and performer whose scintillating sanctuary offers more love and concern and compassion and ministry than a thousand churches and temples and places of worship that scold and berate and upbraid in the name of a punishing God. All Hail The Queen! @beyonce | Posted on 10/Aug/2023 21:38:09