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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.
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.
Kim Weston follows with a performance of the " Black National Anthem ", " Lift Ev ' ry Voice and Sing ".
The camera pans out at the end of the stadium showing several people during the interludes in the film while the speech " I Am Somebody " is being shouted again followed by " Lift Ev ' ry Voice and Sing " as the credits roll.
* " Lift Ev ' ry Voice and Sing ", performed by Kim Weston

Lift and Voice
* Lift Every Voice ( Blue Note, 1969 )
He wrote a Brandeis University publication about coalition building and Lift Up Your Voice, a book about race and religious relations released in 1998.
* Lift Every Voice: Turning a Civil Rights Setback into a New Vision of Social Justice ( Simon and Schuster: 1998 )
" 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
* Perry, Mark, Lift Up Thy Voice: The Grimke Family's Journey from Slaveholders to Civil Rights Leaders, New York: Viking Penguin, 2002.
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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* " 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.
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 and Sing
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 is
* Lift: A turn in which the player is entitled to remove the ball from its current position and play instead from either baulk line.
" Lift ( aka " drive ") from the board and its fin ( s ) is what enables all maneuvers in surfing.
* 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 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.
Thus, " All-In-God " ( see pantheism ) as stated in one of the Sayings of Gospel of Thomas: " Lift Up A Stone And You Will Find Me There ..." This seemingly contradictory interpretation of Gnosticism's theology is not without controversy.
Lift is normally limited to roughly 6m although heads can reach almost 200 Psi ..
* Lift to drag ratios of vehicles at hypersonic speeds are poor whereas since acceleration is a vector, the effective lift to drag ratios of rocket vehicles at high g is not dissimilar.
Lift is generated when air flows over the kite's wing, producing low pressure above the wing and high pressure below it, and deflecting the airflow downwards.
The literal translation is " Lift your foot.
In the CSI episode " Face Lift ", a pig carcass is wrapped in cloth, and a lit cigarette is placed on the cloth, to test the wick effect.
Hancock is connected to Houghton, Michigan by the Portage Lake Lift Bridge, which crosses the dredged Keweenaw Waterway.
* " Ancient of Days " is a gospel song by Ron Kenoly from his 1992 album Lift Him Up with Ron Kenoly
* ' Dundee ', tune to which the hymn I To The Hills Will Lift Mine Eyes ( Psalm 121 ) is usually sung
She is probably most famous for her roles as Mama Fratelli in The Goonies and as Mrs. Lift, Danny DeVito's mother, in Throw Momma from the Train.
The Portage Lift Bridge crosses Portage Lake, connecting Hancock and Houghton, Michigan, by crossing over Portage Lake, which is part of the river and canal system that crosses the entire peninsula.
The Portage Lift Bridge is the world's heaviest and widest double-decked vertical lift bridge.
The original Proctor Mountain Ski Lift is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
In modern analysis, the Lift coefficient is normalized by the dynamic pressure instead of the Smeaton coefficient.

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