Black Kos: The Little Rock Nine, Paul McCartney's 'Blackbird' & Beyoncé

It’s been crazy enough in this country with certain white folks going into major freakout mode over Beyoncé Knowles Carter, known to the world as simply Beyoncé, for daring to release a country music album. This outrage happened, completely ignoring the fact that Beyoncé is from Houston, Texas and grew up with the genre, which I addressed here in a recent story about zydeco. Now there is now yet another offense being laid on her Black feet and vocal chords. She’s singing “Blackbird” written by former Beatle Paul McCartney, and...