Janelle Monáe at the Oscars: (Why) Won’t You Be My Neighbor?

A brief illustrated analysis of the night Monáe took the Film Industry to Church. (note: the entire performance is linked at the bottom of this page)

The radical spirit of Fred Rogers was alive and well inside Ms. Monáe at the Oscars

Janelle Monáe is a songwriter/singer/performer who explodes with energy, a gale force propelled by the whirlwind gusts that Prince, Tina Turner, James Brown and Bessie Smith generated before her. Yet when Monáe…