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Opinion: The New National Anthem – Gregory Hood

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Andra Day Sings Lift Every Voice and Sing At 2024 Super Bowl: Watch

Andra Day performs 'Lift Every Voice and Sing' at the Super Bowl.

Celebrating Juneteenth And Black Music Month With Classical Classics

Updated June 16, 2021 at 12:06 PM ET We last spoke to pianist and Amplify co-host Lara Downes , when she announced her Rising Sun Music project, through which she would release an EP every month for as long as she could keep it up. The goal: to resurface and revivify classical works by Black artists. "It gets very frustrating," Downes explains of her motivations for the project, "to always be looking up at a lineage that doesn't reflect you. So as a person of mixed race, it became very personal at first. And then, it became a story that I really wanted to tell, because it's a story that changes

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Celebrating Juneteenth And Black Music Month With Classical Classics

Celebrating Juneteenth And Black Music Month With Classical Classics

The sacramental pull of 'Lift Every Voice and Sing,' the 'Black National Anthem'

Members of Sister Thea Bowman, Servant of God, Mass Choir sing during a Black History Month Mass of thanksgiving Feb. 16, 2020, at the Immaculate Conception Center in Douglaston, N.Y.(CNS photo/Gregory A. Shemitz) As a child I stood, hand on heart, pledging allegiance to the flag and singing about “bombs bursting in air.” I can never remember which lines come first in our national anthem: “gallantly streaming” or “twilight’s last gleaming”? While these patriotic customs may be more contentious these days I find them valuable, especially now as an adult. I worry about losing the rituals of belonging and becoming that shape our vastly varying identities and draw us together.