America - Blaqly https://blaqly.com Latest Black News and Gossips Mon, 14 Jul 2025 22:51:30 +0000 en-US hourly 1 AMERICA HAS A PROBLEM: Beyoncé’s Unreleased Music Was Stolen In Atlanta During ‘Cowboy Carter’ Tour Stop https://blaqly.com/sub/america-has-a-problem-beyonces-unreleased-music-was-stolen-in-atlanta-during-cowboy-carter-tour-stop/ https://blaqly.com/sub/america-has-a-problem-beyonces-unreleased-music-was-stolen-in-atlanta-during-cowboy-carter-tour-stop/#respond Mon, 14 Jul 2025 22:51:30 +0000 https://blaqly.com/sub/america-has-a-problem-beyonces-unreleased-music-was-stolen-in-atlanta-during-cowboy-carter-tour-stop/ Renaissance Act III might be even further away than we thought… Source: Kevin Mazur / Getty During Beyoncé’s sold-out four-show run in ...

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Renaissance Act III might be even further away than we thought…

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During Beyoncé’s sold-out four-show run in Atlanta, the star’s choreographer and one of her dancers said thieves broke into their SUV and stole numerous items. According to reports from local station Channel 2 WSB-TV, the items stolen include jump drives containing unreleased music, footage plans for her show, and past and future set lists.

While news of the theft only became public on July 14, ahead of her final night in ATL, a spokesperson for Atlanta police told the station the break-in happened just after 8 p.m. on July 8. The break-in, which happened less than 48 hours before her first show in the city, occurred inside a parking deck at Krog Street Market.

Channel 2’s Michael Seiden reported on Monday evening that an arrest warrant has been issued for a suspect. Christopher Grant and Diandre Blue told police that they parked their rental black Jeep Wagoneer in the parking deck around 8:09 p.m. When they returned to their SUV, they discovered someone broke in through the back lift gate, and their two suitcases had been stolen.

“Mr. Grant advised he was also carrying some personal sensitive information for the musician Beyoncé,” an officer wrote in the incident report. “He advised he was her choreographer and Mr. Diandre Blue was a dancer for her and that her hard drives for her upcoming show in Atlanta were stolen also. The hard drives contained water marked music, some un-released music, footage plans for the show and past and future set lists.”

According to reports from Billboard, who received a statement from Atlanta police, ” the suspect remains outstanding, and their identity is not yet available for release.”

“On July 8, 2025, Atlanta Police Zone 6 officers responded to 99 Krog St. NE regarding a report of a theft from motor vehicle. Preliminary investigation revealed a Jeep Wagoneer was broken into at the location and two suitcases had been stolen,” the statement read. “Investigators with the Atlanta Police Department’s Larceny from Auto Unit led the investigation and have subsequently secured an arrest warrant for a suspect.”

Beyoncé does not play about music leaks, so if whoever stole her hard drives puts unreleased songs on the internet, Bey just might end up scrapping them all.

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In the present political moment where diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA) are being openly challenged at the highest levels of government, Dr. Alaysia Black Hackett is offering something rare: clarity, context, and a path forward. With more than two decades in the trenches of cultural strategy and inclusive leadership, she has witnessed firsthand how the language around equity work shifts–even as the core issues persist. Her new book, The Diversity Illusion, cuts through the noise and provides the kind of unflinching analysis that both practitioners and skeptics alike need right now.

What’s Really Happening to DEI Work

“What we see happening is what I consider to be a rebranding of the work,” Dr. Hackett tells MadameNoire. “It is the exchange of acronyms or language used to describe the work that has been done for so many years.”

She isn’t new to this. Her career spans eras of “Multicultural Affairs,” “Urban Affairs,” and “Intercultural Affairs,” long before DEI entered the mainstream lexicon. Today, Dr. Hackett says, the backlash against DEI is less about a true ideological shift and more about optics. “Some corporations or organizations are definitely rolling back their DEIA initiatives. Others are rebranding it or removing it from sites so that they can continue the work but not necessarily be scrutinized.”

That scrutiny has escalated since the death of George Floyd, when companies rushed to signal allyship. “Everybody wanted to talk about diversity,” she recalls. “You saw it on their websites really loud. Some of those initiatives were not as in-depth; they were performative. And so it was easy to just roll back and say, ‘Oh, we’re not gonna do this anymore,’ because it never got to the structure of how the power is in those organizations.”

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Not Everyone’s Rolling Back—But Everyone’s Watching

Still, she warns against assuming every company is guilty of performative allyship. Without naming specific corporations, Dr. Hackett notes that public perception often misses the nuance. “I know for sure [an internationally recognized brand] hasn’t cut back,” she clarifies, referencing firsthand insights from colleagues still embedded in DEIA departments. Instead of blanket boycotts, she urges deeper inquiry: “Are they really rolling back, or are they rebranding? Are they expanding in a way that is not the same? It doesn’t look the same, but it actually has the same type of measurable outcomes?”

“I Am Exhausted:” The Toll on Black Women in DEIA

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Those measurable outcomes matter, especially to Black women who often find themselves recruited for visibility but excluded from real influence. When asked about the exhaustion many Black women feel being the public face of inclusion efforts, Dr. Hackett doesn’t hesitate.

“The first thing as a Black woman who was in a position—I am exhausted,” she says candidly. “And so I definitely understand the sentiments of women and colleagues all over who’ve been doing this work tirelessly, most of the time without the necessary resources or staff.”

Despite the fatigue, she is not deterred.

“I know that this work… is resilient. There have been so many iterations of what this work has been called—civil rights, urban affairs, multicultural affairs—but the work continues because we have to.”

Even in exhaustion, Dr. Hackett sees a mandate: “We continue to advocate because we know that this is the moral and ethically right thing to do. And it’s okay to take a break, to take a breather, to do some self-care… but also know that this work is resilient and we are resilient. And so we have to continue.”

Who DEIA Really Serves

Part of what makes Dr. Hackett’s voice so powerful is her ability to reframe the conversation. Where others see DEI as a niche concern, she sees it as foundational to American life. “Right now, the narrative is DEIA equals Black people, Black communities, Black hire—and that’s not what it is in its totality.”

She goes on to name the groups included under the DEIA umbrella: “Native Americans, Pacific Islanders, Asian Americans, Latino/Latinx individuals, veterans, youth, those with disabilities, rural communities, and people who are formerly incarcerated.”

She underscores this point with a real-world example: “Let’s think about the bipartisan infrastructure law. When we had COVID-19 and students were in their homes trying to do their schoolwork, we realized that rural communities…did not have access to internet. That is a marginalized community, and they are DEIA.”

For Dr. Hackett, almost everyone in America falls under the reach of DEIA principles, whether they realize it or not. That is exactly why the stakes are so high. “Rolling back and saying that these initiatives aren’t needed means it’s going to negatively affect somebody in your life—and that person may be you.”

​​What To Do About It

She also knows that soundbites can’t change systems. That’s why she wrote The Diversity Illusion.

“It is heavily researched, but it is not a heavy read,” she says. “It gives language to understand what [DEIA] is, what it is not. It talks about the illusion and how corporations have taken advantage of DEIA and not changed the power structures.”

According to Dr. Hackett, real progress requires more than optics. “It’s not just to hire a diversity officer. It’s not just to change your website to include diverse people on your publicity page, but to really look at your policies, procedures, and why it’s important.”

America’s Systems Are Doing Exactly What They Were Designed To Do

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When asked if this moment represents a regression or a revelation, she pauses before offering a sobering truth: “I don’t think the country is losing its way. I believe it’s how the country has always been.”

She traces the current political climate back to America’s founding documents. “The Constitution of the United States was signed by a group of people… and that was of a white, straight male Christian. All of the systems in our country… were written from the vantage point of a white Christian, straight male. And therefore, our systems are operating exactly how they were created to do.”

Yet, she still believes in possibility. “We are more diverse than we ever have been. Therefore, we should want to balance out the narrative of the systems to ensure that everyone is inclusive.”

That kind of systemic change isn’t flashy, but it lasts.

“You can’t just, again, change on the surface. It has to be baked into your systems, into how you do the work.”

Dr. Hackett’s work offers both a mirror and a map. The reflection might be uncomfortable, but the direction is clear. As she writes in The Diversity Illusion, the future of equity work requires more than belief. It requires infrastructure, language, and the courage to face what has always been there.

To learn more about The Diversity Illusion or Dr. Hackett’s work, visit alaysiablackhackett.com.

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