Welcoming remarks, we have an important opportunity to share with you. We have a finger with us today. She is going to share with us a beautiful song. A song called lift every voice and sing, which is referred by many as the black african black american anthem. Even though overtime the song was not promoted, children throughout the south cap in a lie. The song gathered momentum over the generations and ultimately, the in ca ap made it its theme song. Naacp made it its theme song. [applause] . Lift every voice and see ring with the heart harmony of liberty let our rejoice see. Thing at song full of the faith that the darkness has taught us. Sing a song full of the hope that the present has brought us facing a rising the dawn of a new day. Let us march on until our story is one won a lonely trot, felt in the day when hope alone had died yet with a steady beat come to the place for which our fathers side we have come over away tears have been watered we have come treading our past through