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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 ".
* Lift Every Voice and Sing, song
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 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 African
Five Air Force C-130 Hercules also moved African troops and supplies during Operation Assured Lift in February – March 1997.

Lift and American
* Duluth Aerial Lift Bridge Library of Congress, Historical American Engineering Record, Survey number HAER MN-44
* 2000: Adolphus Hailstork: Intrada ; Done Made My Vow ; An American Fanfare ; I Will Lift Up Mine Eyes ( NPR / BSO )
The Peterborough Lift Lock was designated a National Historic Site of Canada in 1979, and was named an Historic Mechanical Engineering Landmark by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in 1987.
In 2003, in an article headlined " Keepers of Bush Image Lift Stagecraft to New Heights ," she wrote of the president's famous " Mission Accomplished " speech, " George W. Bush's Top Gun landing on the deck of the carrier Abraham Lincoln will be remembered as one of the most audacious moments of presidential theater in American history ," and described it as " the latest example of how the Bush administration going far beyond the foundations in stagecraft set by the Reagan White House.

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`` Lift, don't shove lift ''.
* Lift: A turn in which the player is entitled to remove the ball from its current position and play instead from either baulk line.
As part of a Winston No Bull 5 fan contest, Earnhardt drives a Bomb Lift Truck and attempts to load an AIM-120 AMRAAM | AIM-120 advanced medium-range air-to-air missile ( AMRAAM ) missile as he competes in a load crew competition at Langley Air Force Base, Virginia, September 2000.
" Lift ( aka " drive ") from the board and its fin ( s ) is what enables all maneuvers in surfing.
Congress voted in 2010 to extend the legislation until 2020 under the Haitian Economic Lift Act ( HELP ); the apparel sector accounts for about 90 % of Haitian exports and nearly one-tenth of GDP.
* A ring is called Lift / rad if all idempotents of R lift modulo the Jacobson radical.
Lift is the component of this force that is perpendicular to the oncoming flow direction.
Lift is commonly associated with the wing of a fixed-wing aircraft, although lift is also generated by propellers, kites, helicopter rotors, rudders, sails and keels on sailboats, hydrofoils, wings on auto racing cars, wind turbines and other streamlined objects.
Lift may also be entirely downwards in some aerobatic manoeuvres, or on the wing on a racing car.
Lift may also be horizontal, for instance on a sail on a sailboat.
Lift may also be described in terms of air pressure: pressure is the normal force per unit area.
Lift is generated in accordance with the fundamental principles of physics.
Lift can be calculated using potential flow theory by imposing a circulation.
* Bernoulli, Newton, and Dynamic Lift Norman F. Smith School Science and Mathematics vol 73 Part I: http :// onlinelibrary. wiley. com / doi / 10. 1111 / j. 1949-8594. 1973. tb09040. x / pdf Part II http :// onlinelibrary. wiley. com / doi / 10. 1111 / j. 1949-8594. 1973. tb08998. x / pdf

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