1. "Formation" by Beyonce
That moment when the police put their hands up and the black child is in charge is prefigurative dreaming of change at its most powerful. Beyonce dances, dreams, reformulates, digging deep into the past of sorrow and suffering and injustice and pulling us all with her into a future that could be different. Also, I love New Orleans, and this is about the sight, sound, and spirit of New Orleans. She slays. I salute...