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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.
CoCo Brother originally worked at WHTA before landing the show, and in addition, also hosts Lift Every Voice on BET.
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.
* 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 ".
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.
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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.
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.
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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.
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More explicit expressions of dissent as also common: “ 25 November 2002: Every Day new intrigues and tyrannies by our repressive turbaned rulers ... And crazy Muslims around the world that bring nothing but carnage and shame ... I swear to god ... if it weren't for clergy like Eshkavari who keep telling us that what they do is not Islam ... I would abandon this little faith once and for all ” In 2004 the government began to arrest and charge bloggers as political dissidents.
In 2002, she released Every Grain Of Sand, an album of new arrangements of Bob Dylan ’ s songs, followed by Waterloo Sunset in 2003.
He recorded the album Durga Rising ( 1997 ) with Jungr and percussionist Kuljit Bhamra, and he performs on Jungr's albums Bare ( 1999 ), Chanson: The Space In Between ( 2000 ), and Every Grain of Sand: Barb Jungr Sings Bob Dylan ( 2002 ).
* A Time for Every Purpose Under Heaven: The Jewish Life-Spiral as a Spiritual Journey ( co-author with Rabbi Phyllis Berman ; Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2002 ).
" Every Dog Has Its Day ," " Selfish Man ," and " Black Friday Rule " were recorded for Swagger ( 2000 ), " Swagger " and " If I Ever Leave This World Alive " were recorded for Drunken Lullabies ( 2002 ), " Laura " was recorded for Whiskey on a Sunday ( 2006 ), and " Between a Man and a Woman " was recorded for Float ( 2008 ).
Every year since 2002 Stefan Banica Jr. has performed in the most popular Christmas concerts in Romania.
Every year between 1992 and 2002, the Republican leadership of the U. S. Congress added a rider to the District of Columbia appropriations bill that prohibited the use of federal or local funds to implement the Health Care Benefits Expansion Act.
Every November from 2002 through 2008, the Knights hosted the East Coast Rugby Invitational, at first featuring both traditional and predominantly gay rugby teams from across eastern North America, and later incorporating college teams.
* The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know by E. D. Hirsch, Joseph F. Kett and James Trefil ( 2002 )
Every day, a train of three or more Milk Tank Wagons would be filled from lorries, and then taken to London by either the GWR or the SR. Express Dairies sold the creamery and a similar unit in Kirkcudbright, Scotland in July 2002 to Milk Link, which by that time produced UHT milk.
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