Beyoncé Prestigious Peabody Award Win for Lemonad

It has been a great year for Beyoncé.
Not only will she and Jay Z get to welcome twins this summer, but the pregnant songstress has been honored with a Peabody Award for her HBO visual album Lemonade.
known as the "Pulitzer Prizes for Radio," the Peabody Awards recognize excellence in radio, television and digital broadcasting. Beyonce is among the seven honorees in the Entertainment category to be named to be part of the Peabody Awards' inaugural Peabody 30, honoring programming in radio, news/podcast, web and public service.
"Lemonade draws from prolific literary, musical, cinematic, and aesthetic sensibilities of black cultural producers to create a rich tapestry of poetic innovation," organizers said in a said. "The audacity of its reach and fierceness of its vision challenges our cultural imagination, while crafting a charming and sublime masterpiece about the lives of women of color and the bonds of friendship seldom seen or heard in American popular culture."
Beyonce, Lemonade, Gif

The other six winners in the Entertainment category are:
Atlanta (FX)
Better Things (FX)
Happy Valley (BBC One)
Horace and Pete (Louis C.K., Hulu)
National Treasure (Channel 4, Hulu)
VEEP (HBO)
Key & Peele alum Keegan-Michael Key will host the 75th annual Peabody Awards at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City on May 21. The ceremony will be  aired on the 6 of june on the Pivot channel.

Lemonade is certified platinum and is considered Beyoncé's edgiest and most personal work to date, containing piles of relationship problems, infidelity and forgiveness. Many have speculated the album is about her and Jay Z's marriage. The two have never spoken about it.


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