Mo’Nique took to Instagram while on the beach in Miami, asking her followers to reassess their criteria for a "queen." With the word’s popularity and usage applauding Black women for their daily efforts, motherhood, business skills and other achievements, Mo’Nique questioned the word's criteria. “While I was walking [on] the beach, I was having a conversation with myself and the universe, and I was going over this word queen because we often refer to each as ‘hey queen, hey queen, hey queen.’ But here’s my question: Do we qualify to be referring to one another as queen,” she asked. “So I had to look up some of our queens, our sisters; I had to look them up,” she explained. Mo'Nique detailed that her research was based on knowing how queens obtained the honor. “Queen Makeba, Queen Nefertiti. I had to look up Queen Candace. I had to look up these sisters to understand how they got the title of queen. When I read up on these sisters, all of them pretty much had the same thread.” She...
