Lizzo 
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SOURCE: Nursing Clio
3/29/2023
Lizzo's Duet With History (and Madison's Crystal Flute)
by Grace B. McGowan and Ravynn K. Stringfield
Performing with the treasured national relic of a slaveholding President forced Americans to ask who owns antiquities, and has the right to tell their story. The controversy over the event shows that these are still contested questions.
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SOURCE: Vanity Fair
10/11/2022
Lizzo Talks About the Flute
The pop superstar touches on numerous subjects, including making history belong to everyone and the historical relationship of racist and sexist stereotyping of Black women's performances looking back to Josephine Baker.
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SOURCE: The Bulwark
10/4/2022
What Lizzo Can Teach the Right about History
Commentator Mona Charen writes that Lizzo's embrace of an artifact of the founding generation should be welcomed by conservatives, who claim to stand for a history shared by all Americans without regard for identity.
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