BEYONCÉ FANS
“The Lion King” is the gift that keeps on giving for Beyoncé fans. Her new visual album, “Black Is King,” inspired by last year’s movie “The Lion King,” is heading to Disney+ on July 31. A short teaser trailer unveiled Saturday night at beyonce.com shows the superstar reading a well-worn copy of Robert Farris Thompson’s 1971 book “Black Gods and Kings.” In one visual, she smiles and cradles a baby in her arms by the water, while a basket sweeps by on a tide. “The ancestors never left you,” she says in a voiceover. “You can’t wear a crown with your head down.” The visual album “reimagines the lessons of ‘The Lion King’ for today’s young kings and queens in search of their own crowns,” a news release says.