BHN Talk Radio Show 2-20-24-PART 1: James Weldon Johnson redeems The Star Spangled Banner
Feb 21, 2024 ·
27m 54s
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In this episode of Black Headline News Talk Radio Show, February 20, 24, Cheryl Smith, Julia Ann Dudley Najieb and Brigitte Jones discuss the following: The aftermath of comments from...
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In this episode of Black Headline News Talk Radio Show, February 20, 24, Cheryl Smith, Julia Ann Dudley Najieb and Brigitte Jones discuss the following: The aftermath of comments from the song sang at the Superbowl by Grammy-winning recording artist Andra Day, "Lift Every Voice and Sing,"originally written by James Weldon Johnson, composed by his brother should be redemption for the third verse of the U.S. national anthem, The Star Spangled Banner, created by amateur poet, attorney, anti-abolitionist, and slave-owner, 35 year-old Francis Scott Key. According to the www.thenation.com, Key's message in that third voice to the blacks fighting for freedom was unmistakable—we will hunt you down and the search will leave you in terror because, when we find you, your next stop is the gloom of the grave.
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