, social media managerQueen of music! Queen of TV! Queen of movies! Queen of hip-hop! Queen Latifah is an OG of feminist activism in hip-hop.
Queen Latifah walked so that Megan Thee Stallion could gallop, and I mean that. In the 80s and 90s, mainstream rap was much more casually misogynistic than it is today (can you imagine?), and Queen Latifah's 1995 phenomenon “U.N.I.T.Y,” a call for women to own their bodies, sexuality, and humanity, earned her a Grammy.
Latifah’s insistence that Black women take up space in all areas of life, unencumbered by racism and sexism, is a rallying cry we can all get behind. —BJChildish Gambino (a.k.a Donald Glover)'s video for "This Is America" went viral when it hit the internet in June 2018.