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* Lift Every Voice ( Blue Note, 1969 )
Every summer, the cities of Hancock and neighboring Houghton host a festival known as " Bridgefest ," to commemorate the building of the Portage Lake Lift Bridge.
* Lift Every Voice: Turning a Civil Rights Setback into a New Vision of Social Justice ( Simon and Schuster: 1998 )
From this point on he was credited as both screenwriter and director for most of his films, including The Shocking Miss Pilgrim, Miracle on 34th Street, Apartment for Peggy, Chicken Every Sunday, The Big Lift, For Heaven's Sake, Little Boy Lost, The Country Girl, and The Proud and Profane.
" Lift Every Voice and Sing " — often called " The Negro National Hymn ", " The Negro National Anthem ", " The Black National Anthem ", or " The African-American National Anthem "— is a song written as a poem by James Weldon Johnson ( 1871 – 1938 ) and set to music by his brother John Rosamond Johnson ( 1873 – 1954 ) in 1900.
" Lift Every Voice and Sing " was publicly performed first as a poem as part of a celebration of Lincoln's Birthday on February 12, 1900 by 500 school children at the segregated Stanton School.
" By the 1920s, copies of " Lift Every Voice and Sing " could be found in black churches across the country, often pasted into the hymnals.
In 2008, jazz singer Rene Marie was asked to perform the national anthem " National Anthem " at a civic event in Denver, Colorado, where she caused a controversy by substituting the words of " Lift Every Voice and Sing " in the song.
This arrangement of the words of " Lift Every Voice and Sing " with the melody of " The Star Spangled Banner " became part of the titular suite on her 2011 CD release, " The Voice of My Beautiful Country ".
* Lift Every Voice and Sing: A Celebration of the Negro National Anthem, edited by Julian Bond and Sondra Kathryn Wilson
* Video of singing " Lift Every Voice and Sing " led by Alice Walker and Dr. Rudolph Byrd at Emory University
She played herself in the late-90's Pam Grier series Linc's, and at the end of the show accompanied herself on the piano for " Lift Every Voice.
* Lift Every Voice and Sing
CoCo Brother originally worked at WHTA before landing the show, and in addition, also hosts Lift Every Voice on BET.
* UVa Library: Exhibits: Lift Every Voice: Patriotic Odes
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Many African Americans sing " Lift Every Voice and Sing " in addition to the American national anthem, " The Star-Spangled Banner ", or in lieu of it.
* Lift Every Voice ( ECM, 2002 )
* 1995, she was the inaugural recipient of the National Opera Association's " Lift Every Voice " Legacy Award, honoring the contributions of African Americans to the field of opera.
Johnson is most notable as the composer of Lift Every Voice and Sing which has come to be known in the United States as the " Black National Anthem ".
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Her biggest claim to fame was singing the classic hit " It Takes Two " with Marvin Gaye in 1966 and her later recording of the Black National Anthem, " Lift Every Voice and Sing ".
She made an album for the label, This Is America, which included her popular version of the Black National Anthem, " Lift Every Voice and Sing.
* Lift Every Voice: African American Oratory, 1787-1900.
Lift and Voice
He wrote a Brandeis University publication about coalition building and Lift Up Your Voice, a book about race and religious relations released in 1998.
In 1939, Augusta Savage received a commission from the World's Fair and created a 16-foot plaster sculpture called Lift Ev ' ry Voice and Sing.
Partly because of the success of this recording, " Lift Ev ' ry Voice and Sing " was entered into the Congressional Record by Del.
* Perry, Mark, Lift Up Thy Voice: The Grimke Family's Journey from Slaveholders to Civil Rights Leaders, New York: Viking Penguin, 2002.
It was there that two brothers, James Weldon Johnson and J. Rosamond Johnson ( faculty member ), wrote the words and music to " Lift Ev ' ry Voice and Sing " ( known as the " Negro National Anthem "), in 1900.
* " I Will Lift My Voice " ( from Spirit and Truth )
Throughout the years Voice of Prophecy broadcasts were marked by an opening theme song of " Lift Up the Trumpet " performed by the King's Heralds quartet and closed with Richard's poem " Have Faith in God " each week having a new verse written.
" Lift Ev ' ry Voice and Sing " traditionally is sung immediately following, or instead of, " The Star-Spangled Banner " at events hosted by African-American churches, schools, and other organizations.
Lift and Blue
* Lift Every Voice ( Blue Note, 1969 )
Lift and Note
Note: International ( European ) edition of Planets doesn't contain Bad Triangle, Lift Us Up or The Thing That Should Not Be.
Lift and 1969
In June 1969, the Great Orme Cabin Lift, a modern alternative to the tramway, was opened with its base station adjacent to the open air theatre.
It was Granada TV's Producer Muriel Young who hired Ayshea to present and star in her own pop show, Lift Off with Ayshea in 1969.
Every and Voice
Writing for the Village Voice, Robert Christgau gave the album a rating of A -, saying, " Every cut on this clear, consistent, elusive album affords distinct present pleasure.
CrossLeft joined with Every Voice Network and Claiming the Blessing in October 2005 to stage a major conference, Path to Action, at the National Cathedral in Washington, DC.
Every and Blue
The album and its two singles " Every Shade of Blue " and " Take Me to Your Heart " were only released in some European countries, North America, Japan and Australia, and not in Britain.
A second single was released from the album in April 2010, a new remix of the song " Love Don't Live Here " backed by Ian Masterson's 2010 reworking of the 1995 single " Every Shade of Blue " and " The Runner " remixed by Buzz Junkies
Every year in the summer the town has the Blue Crab Festival.
Every year, South Carolina sends between 15 and 25 delegates to the Conference on National Affairs ( CONA ), held at the Blue Ridge Assembly in Black Mountain, North Carolina.
Every episode of the original Battlestar Galactica spin-off series Galactica 1980 ended with a short statement about the U. S. Air Force's 1969 Project Blue Book findings that UFOs are not proven to exist and " are not a threat to national security ".
Died Pretty recorded their third album, Every Brilliant Eye, in Los Angeles with Jeff Eyrich ( The Gun Club, The Plimsouls ) producing, it was released on Blue Mosque in April 1990.
Every player joins either the Red team or the Blue team, and these two teams play games continuously.
Every player joins either the Red team or the Blue team, and these two teams play one match continuously.
Every year, the Blue Cross Arena hosts regular season Section V high school hockey games and the Section V Basketball championship.
In April 2009, Chris Thompson gave an interview with Chicago-based music website Consequence of Sound during which, when asked about the possibility of The Screaming Blue Messiahs reforming, he commented: " Every couple of years I get a call from one of the others saying, “ Shall we re-form and do something ”.
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