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Lift Every Voice and Sing The Star Spangled Banner

Author: ChocolateCity News Editors Published: July 4th, 2011
Lift Every Voice and Sing The Star Spangled Banner

Lift Every Voice and Sing, 1939. Augusta Savage Since that 2008 incident with  Jazz singer, Rene Marie, in which she shocked some Denver residents by singing “Lift Every Voice and Sing”  when she was expected to sing the “Star Spangled [Read More]

Rene Marie replaces Star Spangled Banner with Black Anthem

Author: sekle Published: July 3rd, 2008
Rene Marie replaces Star Spangled Banner with Black Anthem

Jazz singer, Rene Marie, shocked some Denver residents by singing “Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing” also known as "The Black National Anthem" by James Weldon Johnson instead of the “Star Spangled Banner.” Ms. Marie was invited by Denver's [Read More]

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Chicago’s City Clerk Mendoza Scrapped Herbert Pulgar Design – Was it wrongly misinterpreted as gang symbols?

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