Texas Monthly4d
The Unlikely Story Behind the Oscar-Nominated Ballad From ‘Sing Sing’
Abraham Alexander and Black Pumas cofunder Adrian Quesada wrote and recorded “Like a Bird” in Fort Worth and Austin. Now they ...
Las Vegas Sun2d
‘Lift Every Voice and Sing’ should be our second national anthem
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 (1873-1954), ...
‘Lift Every Voice and Sing’ should be America’s second national anthem. Here’s why | Opinion
The Black National Anthem is a tribute to the struggle against the laws and social racism directed at people’s skin color and ...
The Journal News6d
Lauded movie about arts rehabilitation program at Sing Sing could star on Oscars night
The true story behind 'Sing Sing' the film began in Sing Sing the prison, where a prison theater program changed lives.
Lori Lieberman, Who First Sang 'Killing Me Softly with His Song,' Reacts to Roberta Flack's Death: 'Endless Gratitude'
Flack won two Grammys for "Killing Me Softly with His Song": record of the year and best pop vocal performance, female in ...
The New Yorker6d
Judy Collins Turn, Turn, Turns to Poetry
The eighty-five-year-old folksinger, who is about to publish a book of poems, chats about her old friends (Leonard Cohen and ...
There’s Nothing They Can’t Sing and Laugh Their Way Through
Marnina Schon and Micah O’Konis, who are now a comedic musical duo called Couplet, lived across town from each other in Los ...
The Pantagraph6d
How a teen from Normal found her voice through the Black national anthem
At just 16 years old, Gabrielle "Gabby" Johnson of Normal has had the honor of singing the the Black national anthem, "Lift ...