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The lyrics to ‘Lift Every Voice and Sing,’ and James Weldon Johnson on how it came to be
Pennsylvania Capital-Star via Yahoo News· 4 days agoI wrote the words and he wrote the music. Our New York publisher, Edward […] The post The lyrics to...
Watch: Top 12 Black anthem songs
TheGrio via Yahoo News· 4 days agoAnother staple at Black events, the song features fellow rapper Lil Scrappy. Actors Sterling K. Brown and Regina Hall can be seen reciting the lyrics ...
Students raise flag in honor of the national Juneteenth holiday
KPBS San Diego· 4 days agoWith the Black National Anthem "Lift Every Voice and Sing" playing, a group of elementary and middle...
Multimedia: North Fork Juneteenth parade and celebration - Riverhead News Review
The Riverhead News-Review· 4 days agoThe celebration began at Clinton Memorial A.M.E. Zion Church on Third Street for a blessing, a sing...
Bill Kenny of Norwich: Recognizing the end of slavery in the U.S. at Juneteenth event
The Bulletin via Yahoo News· 5 days agoAct into law. I’m sure those attending this morning’s ceremonies will share this song. I wanted you to enjoy the words as the poetic hymn James Weldon Johnson intended them to be. Lift ...
Elm Thicket-Northpark, once a Dallas-area freedmen’s town, cements its history with marker
Dallas Morning News· 5 days agoUnder the shade of a tree on Saturday, neighbors Alma Ayers, 88, and Joe Hearne, 82, stood and...
75+ Death Anniversary Quotes & Remembrance Messages
LOVE to KNOW via Yahoo News· 5 days ago"All that we love deeply becomes a part of us." - Helen Keller You appear to me every day in small ways — the caress of the sun on my cheek, the sight of...
Singer Paris Paloma interrogates the myth of femininity
Washington Post· 4 days agoIn the folk ballad, Paloma sings: “All day, every day, therapist, mother, maid/ Nymph then a virgin,...
Norwich celebrates Juneteenth with songs, dances and messages of freedom
The Day· 3 days agoHaitian youth dancers, from left, Christyna Riffin, 16, Yousebelie Fortune, 15, Francesca...
Celebrating John Wetton’s “Extraordinary Life”
Princeton Town Topics· 4 days agoLess than a week before Father’s Day, my son and I are talking about the time he fell off the sofa dancing around to Asia’s “Heat of the Moment.” In fact, when Wetton sings, the whole world ...
