* 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 ".

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.

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.

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

* " Ancient of Days " is a gospel song by Ron Kenoly from his 1992 album Lift Him Up with Ron Kenoly

* " Lift " ( Poets of the Fall song ), a 2004 single

** " Lift " ( Shannon Noll song )

* " Lift ", an unreleased song by Radiohead

* " Beautiful ", a song by Audio Adrenaline from their 2001 album Lift

* In 1998, the British band Love and Rockets released their last album, Lift, featuring the song " R. I. P.

Two other bands also managed to be in the public eye in this year, with a Liquido track being featured in a Carlsberg beer commercial and Swiss Gotthard's track " Lift U Up " promoted as official song for the European Soccer Championship in Switzerland and Austria.

* " Glory ", a 2001 song from Audio Adrenaline's sixth studio album Lift

Shannon often cites the death of his father as a major inspiration in his musical career, and penned a song on his album Lift titled " Now I Run " in memory of his father.

" Lift Me Up " became a second chart topper for the ex-Spice Girl and is perhaps Geri's strangest song, with an equally weird music video, in which she befriends a group of aliens and helps them fix their ship.

Funderburk also participated on an album entitled Voices with a song called " Lift up My Voice ".

* Mamie Minch dedicated her song, " Lift Him Up That's All " under the same title of Phillips ' song but with different lyrics.

In all, Wang wrote seven operas and published six songbooks, and wrote some 700 western-style songs, the most famous of which include " Alamuhan " ( 阿拉木汉, inspired by a Xinjiang Uyghur song ), " Awariguli " ( also supposedly an Uyghur song ), " Flowers and Youth " ( pinyin: Hua ' er Yu Shaonian, a Hui Muslim folk song ), " In that place wholly faraway " ( a song from Qinghai Province ), " Lift Your Veil " ( 掀起你的盖头来 ), " Duldal and Maria " ( a Kazakh folk song ), " Mayila ", and " The Crescent Moon Rises " ( 半个月亮爬上来 ; pinyin: Ban Ge Yueliang Pa Shang Lai ).

Kaarlonen being a former employee of benchmark-developer Futuremark, POTF were offered to have their song Lift included in the 2005-literation of Futuremark's benchmarking software 3DMark, which exposed the band to a wider audience than Max Payne 2 had done.

Accompanying the album, the band released a video for the song Lift, directed by Tuomas " Stobe " Harju, and used the songs Stay and Illusion and Dream as promotional radio singles.

The album contains a password granting access to a secret page on poetsofthefall. com that hosts a remix of the song Lift, entitled " Dramadance Remix " as well as wallpapers made from the Lift-video and the album-artwork.