Solange was named by Harvard University Foundation "Artist of the Year"

The Harvard Foundation, an organization dedicated to the exploration of intercultural and racial relations, has elected Solange Knowles as "artist of the year".

The younger sister of Beyoncé has been chosen, as a statement released by the university, for invoking with her album A Seat At The Table “themes of identity, empowerment, grief and healing that have resonated with millions of voices that routinely feel silenced or overlooked”.

"I definitely created this album as protest music" - the artist said during an intervention on activism in pop music at Yale - "I am resisting, I am objecting, I am refusing. And in its most simple way, protest is a statement of objection. There were so many things that I fought against through this album, in hopes really for me to find healing and solace".

The 2016 album of Solange is, in fact, a personal work on black pride starting from "Do not Touch My Hair", a song that has had the ability to transform oppression into a provocative hymn, up to many interactive artistic projects on women of color, such as the one staged at the Tate Modern in London or at the Guggenheim Museum.

Before the Texan artist, the same prize was awarded to Viola Davis, Queen Latifah, Halle Berry, LL Cool J and Jackie Chan.