Solange Knowles performs onstage at the Busboys and Poets’ Peace Ball: Voices of Hope and Resistance at National Museum Of African American History & Culture on January 19, 2017 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Mike Coppola/Getty Images for Busboys and Poets)
Esperanza Spalding and Solange hit the stage, among other artists, at Busboys and Poets’ Peace Ball last night.
The National Museum of African American History and Culture was packed with actors, entertainers, notable social justice activists and authors, among 3,000 people seeking an “alternative” inaugural event.
“We can’t just sit and lick our wounds,” Danny Glover said, according to WTOP. “Our work is cut out for us. We have to make some hard choices.”
Solange performed close to midnight, according to WTOP. She sang hits from her latest album including “Cranes In The Sky,” “Weary,” and a cut from the EP True, “Bad Girls,” Essence Magazine reports.
Busboys hosted the event for “folks to have some joy and camaraderie and get energized for, I think, a very long and arduous road ahead of us,” Andy Shallal, owner of Busboys told DCist last month.
