Explore how 9 influential Black musicians including Louis Armstrong, Michael Jackson, and Prince changed music history ...

Ages ago, I traveled overland from Europe to Nepal: the Orient Express train from Munich to Istanbul, a boat through the ...

"Lift Every Voice and Sing," often called the "Black national anthem," was performed ... love and find their place in the lyrics, in the harmony of the song," Jones said. For the performance ...

It's a song with a moniker — the "Black national anthem" — that stirs emotions ... all people can love and find their place in the lyrics, in the harmony of the song," Jones said.

It would frankly be silly at this point not to get Jack Black to release his vocal chords ... the overwrought rendition of asinine lyrics, sung in the plaintiff voice of a lovelorn Bowser ...

The lyrics of the song can be viewed here. “Lift Every Voice and Sing” resonated so strongly with people that it was hailed the “Black National Anthem.” Now that we know the history of the ...

Far from a denunciation of racism, its poetic lyrics celebrate ... a relatively unknown “anthem”. Like the song itself, its singer drew on the wellsprings of black self-reliance.

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Little things — like a song ... anthem, in 1931. All of this is worth noting — because "Lift Every Voice" is sometimes discussed as if it were some ephemeral "woke" thing, dreamed up by Black ...

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The song’s lyrics tackle some of this country’s ... James Brown If there’s one song that personifies a Black anthem, it’s the James Brown 1968 classic “Say It Loud, I’m Black and ...