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Juneteenth is celebrated every year on June 19 to commemorate the end of slavery in the United States. Here are a few of the ...
From Round Rock to the Paramount Theatre, Austin honors Juneteenth with a vibrant mix of celebration and reflection. Whether ...
In celebration of the 25th anniversary of the Hot Corner Festival, this year's festivities are scheduled to begin on Monday, ...
In 2024, the Longmeadow community remembered two enslaved people who lived and died in the town. Two stone markers, inscribed ...
In celebration of the 25th anniversary of the Hot Corner Festival, this year's festivities are scheduled to begin on Monday, ...
Grace Potter’s 2008 album ‘Medicine,’ produced by T Bone Burnett, is finally released, recorded in Los Angeles, but with a ...
The festival of Holi is not just about physical colours It celebrates the love of Krishna for Radha and the love of Radha for Krishna They are drenching each other in myriad colours of love The besott ...
The 69th Eurovision Song Contest had a seriously dramatic finish – one that probably gave organisers a minor heart attack. Following another year in which this strenuously non-political event was ...
The Black National Anthem — “Lift Every Voice and Sing” — is a hymn written as a poem by then-NAACP leader James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938) in 1900. His brother John Rosamond Johnson (1873 ...
“Lift Every Voice and Sing," a hymn known by many as the “Black national anthem ... But local historians say Johnson never intended his poem to be seen as a Black anthem, but rather a hymn for all ...
By Kimberly Nordyke Managing Editor, Digital Ledisi took to the field at Super Bowl LIX on Sunday to deliver a powerful performance of “Lift Every Voice and Sing ... as a poem, with music ...