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@JanelleMonae @WomensMarch #DirtyComputer #Not4Profit #America #History #Podcast #Motivational #Education #PowerToThePolls #TogetherWeRise #Enough #WomensMarch2018 As uplifting and important a collective moment as Saturday's (Jan. 21) global Women's Marches were, and as much as they may have ignited a cultural and political movement, there may have been no more poignant and powerful a moment than when Janelle MonáeI took the stage with the mothers of slain African Americans whose lives were unjustly taken by police to perform her powerful anthem "Hell You Talmbout” In her speech at the main Women's March in Washington, D.C., Monáe acknowledged a debt to both her grandmother, a sharecropper from Aberdeen, Miss. and her mother, a janitor, while saying how honored she felt to be there. Monáe, who most recently gave two award-worthy performances in critically-acclaimed films, Hidden Figures and Moonlight, said she was here to march against the abuse of power. And then her band took the stage