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From celebrating local Black-owned businesses to activations during NWSL games, the BWPC is committed to league-wide celebrations of Juneteenth.
The smell of BBQ-slathered ribs crackling on Unc’s grill. Kids reciting all three verses of “Lift Every Voice and Sing.” ...
Expanding from 35 to 75 entries, this latest iteration kicked off Monday (June 16) with the reveal of the artists ranked ...
The sounds of protest and resistance produced by women are caught in a political contradiction, as Anne Carson’s ‘The Gender ...
Lift every voice and sing, Till earth and heaven ring, Ring with the harmonies of Liberty,” goes the lyric written in 1900 by ...
The school children of Jacksonville kept singing it; they went off to other schools and sang it; they became teachers and taught it to other children.
After the state restricted how lessons on race and gender could be taught, activist Kristi Williams turned anger into ...
By Anne Lamott, Los Angeles Times Usually when people announce, “Here’s the thing,” I want to ask, really? Did God stop by ...
It's the time of year in Jacksonville for Juneteenth events, dance recitals and season finales. Here are 100-plus fun things to do.
The Black National Anthem — “Lift Every Voice and Sing” — is a hymn written as ... ethnic and religious expressions. Just in case you have never read the lyrics and experienced the ...
“Lift Every Voice and Sing," a hymn known by many as the “Black national anthem ... of alleged race divisions given that his primary driver was art and learning. “You don't know what religion or party ...