How a school principal’s poem for Black schoolchildren outlived its author’s memory and became the soundtrack of a movement Every February, in sanctuaries, school gymnasiums and community centers across the country, a familiar melody rises and the room stands. For generations of Black Americans, Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing is less a song than an […]

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