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    Janelle Monáe

    Sep 18, 2020 2 minutes

    IN A YEAR WHERE IT SEEMS LIKE EVERY FACET OF LIFE IS GOING THROUGH a massive shift, musician and actor Janelle Monáe is front and center as a voice for that change, especially in her new film available on-demand on major cable and digital platforms and winner of on an Oscar for Best Picture. She says she’s grateful those films were her debut. “They had a very specific perspective around the Black experience and about broadening who we can be as a people.” After “community and being a good citizen is what I’m focused on next,” says Monáe.

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