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Not only did the Gannon administration approve the playing of “Lift Every Voice and Sing” after the “Star-Spangled Banner” before every men’s basketball home game, school officials took it a step further. They decided to play the song before every home game of every sport.
Angela Dennis, Knoxville News Sentinel Published 8:04 pm UTC Feb. 8, 2021 As the National Museum of African American Music opens its doors, journalists from the USA TODAY Network explore the stories, places and people who helped make music what it is today in our expansive series, Hallowed Sound. From the days of slavery through the Civil Rights Era to the BLM movement, Black music has emboldened American protests with songs so intertwined with events that they've become part of the country's history themselves. Songs that raised fists in solidarity in the 1960s found a rebirth durin...
Excellent Book on the Mental Side of Running and Racing: Running Within by Weldon Johnson updated: February 7, 2020 update: 2/7/20 : I wrote this review originally in 2000 but it deserves to be front and center. I credit the book for helping lower my 10k PR from 29:49 to 28:27 in one race. Considering how much time we all spend running, spend a couple of hours reading this book and hopefully it will help your training and racing. There are literally hundreds (if not thousands) of books on the market about how to train smarter, better, harder, or what have you. Some of them are quite good, ...
This excerpt originally appeared in the January/February issue of ESSENCE magazine, available on newsstands now. The era I grew up in both deepened my racial wound and soothed it with the healing balm of the arts. My childhood spanned the 1920s and 1930s, two of the most economically memorable and culturally rich decades in American history—a period when Negro literature, music and culture flourished. The Roaring ’20s rollicked joyously with jazz, decadence and illegal whiskey, while the thunderous market crash of 1929 rattled nerves throughout the ’30s. What these shifts meant to daily...
Allison E. Francis GREAT BARRINGTON â As Rufus Jones Jr. worked the trading desk at a Wall Street firm, his own music inundated him. âI would send myself texts and emails and voice messages to capture all the melodies in my head, because I couldnât keep up,â the part-time Great Barrington resident said. Then came the cornavirus pandemic that confined him to his Jersey City, N.J., apartment. Soon, there would be other horrors in the 2020 news cycle, including the death of George Floyd while in Minneapolis Police custody in May. For Jones, the news sparked more songs, and t...