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The Bad Bunny Revolution

How the halftime show gave voice to unheard emotions

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Danté Stewart
Feb 10, 2026
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When Bad Bunny finished one of the coldest Super Bowl performances in history, dancing in a sea of flags and lovers, singing his song “DtMF,” I thought of the current moment in history — our anger and sadness at our country — and every act to silence or erase us: the powerlessness we as Black and Brown Americans who are often left out feel. The terror. …

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Writer. Minister. Poet. Author of Shoutin In The Fire: An American Epistle.
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