On Feb. 7, Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California, was ground zero in the culture war — and the next one may be outside the Manhattan headquarters of the NFL on Tuesday morning.
Calling Beyoncé’s halftime performance during Super Bowl 50 “a slap in the face to law enforcement,” a group known as Proud of the Blues is organizing an all-day Anti-Beyoncé Protest Rally in front of the National Football League’s main offices on Park Ave, New York.
“Come and let’s stand together,” the announcement reads. “Let’s tell the NFL we don’t want hate speech & racism at the Superbowl ever again!”
A pro-Beyoncé group, Black Girl Rising, then announced Get In Formation, a counter-protest to what the group described as “a racist, ahistorical attack on the Black Panther Party and Beyoncé.”