One of the first musicians to interpret the “Star Spangled Banner” in a way that displayed a Black consciousness was the piano prodigy known as “Blind Tom.” Born into slavery in Georgia in ...

The rousing Star-Spangled Banner is arguably the US's best known ... mother earth had opened and was vomiting shot and shell in a sheet of fire and brimstone," he observed. But as the smoke ...

Key saw it and wrote a poem that became the national anthem. The actual flag Key saw — the Star-Spangled Banner — is now housed in a climate-controlled, light-protected chamber at the ...