Beyoncé headlines Coachella, is inevitably incredible

Beyoncé headlines Coachella
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Beyoncé became the first black woman to headline the Coachella music festival in California on Saturday, performing with guest appearances from her husband, Jay Z, her sister, Solange Knowles, and a reunited Destiny's Child.

The performance included a brass band, which Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas), who represents Beyoncé's home district of Houston, said was "giving us HBCU vibes," using the abbreviation for Historically Black Colleges and Universities. Beyoncé's set featured selections from her most recent album, Lemonade, as well as songs dating back to the start of her career in the late 1990s.

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Bonnie Kristian

Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.