" In September, 2014, Baltimore and the United States will mark the bicentennial of the event that inspired "The Star-Spangled Banner." But Francis Scott Key's poem, set to a British drinking song, ...
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The Origins of the Black National Anthem
Let’s not pretend that fans at the Philadelphia Eagles' home opener were booing at a song they deemed divisive. They took the opportunity to boo at Blackness itself. It was an open expression of ...
O say can you see... The most watched rendition of the national anthem is performed each year at the Super Bowl, with 80,000 people in attendance and over 100 million more viewing and listening from ...
The first football game I ever attended at Howard University, a historically black college in Washington, D.C., started off like most football games. When our marching band began playing “The ...
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NHL’s 5 best national anthem singers of all time
Later, as the passions of that night passed, I realized that there are times when national anthems and those who sing them ...
Deutsch, James I. 2015. [Book review] "The Star-Spangled Banner: The Unlikely Story of America's National Anthem." American Studies, 54, (2), 42–43. https://doi.org ...
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