Solange Knowles has released a new album entitled "A Seat At The Table," that is basically black female empowerment personified. She was recently interviewed by "Rookie" Editor-In-Chief, Tavi Gevinson, for W Magazine and divulged into the creative process of the making of her album as well as how her art is reflective of the times it was created in.

Solange is very active on social media and is a staunch supporter of the Black Lives Matter Movement as well as a unrelenting critic of Donald Trump. Her strong views of black power and equality can be heard and felt in her music. In the interview, Knowles states, "I feel there were a lot of traumas that I had to experience during this creative process, that I didn’t identify as traumas until I realized just how much weight and how many triggers [there are] like constantly seeing the images of young black people lifeless in the street, and how many cries of mothers that you’re constantly hearing on a daily basis. Outside of those traumas, just the nuances that you have to navigate through everyday as a black person living in this country. It absolutely has a psychological effect on you. There are clinical and scientific studies that show the brain dealing with the same type of PTSD that we know of in other traumatic instances and experiences, but society has not yet come to terms with applying it to race."

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