Tome & Plume: This Spring Hums Hymns Of Change
A breeze of spring seems to have suddenly blown away the dry old leaves lying on the thoroughfares in Bhopal. The gust, ...
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Tobe Nwigwe Has a Lot to Say About His New Tour, Dodging Acceptance and Smacking Fire Out of You With His Raps
As serious as Tobe Nwigwe can be about his art—just listen to the skilled MC’s message in his rhymes and the aesthetic across ...
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A journey between time, faith, and sin in Mansoura Ez-Eldin's The Orchards of Basra
In The Orchards of Basra', Hisham, a bookseller, is drawn into the life of Yazid, an intellectual from ancient Basra, by a ...
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SNIPPETS: Lake Wobegon native entertains with stories, hymns
Not only that, but the 82-year-old who lives in New York, but hails from Lake Wobegon, Minnesota – where all the women are ...
St. Pauli grapples with stadium hymn because of lyric-writer's alleged Nazi links
Bundesliga club St. Pauli is grappling with whether to continue playing its traditional stadium hymn following recent ...
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Fifteen New Hymns Available to Use in Church and at Home
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is adding 15 new hymns to its global collection, “Hymns—For Home and Church.” ...
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125 years of impassioned singing
By Christine WeertsSpecial to the Selma Times JournalThis year marks the 125th anniversary of “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” ...
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Detroit's techno music scene celebrated at new MSU Museum exhibit
"Techno: The Rise of Detroit's Machine Music" is on display through the end of April at the Michigan State University Museum.
Who sang 'Lift Every Voice and Sing' at Super Bowl 2025?
WASHINGTON — Grammy-winning musician Ledisi performed "Lift Every Voice and Sing" at the 2025 Super Bowl, delivering a powerful rendition of the song often referred to as the Black national anthem.
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An Arkansas organist is playing 18 hours of Bach this year, one lunch break at a time
To commemorate the 275th anniversary of Bach's death, Colin MacKnight is performing all of Bach's organ works throughout 2025 ...
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What is the Black national anthem? What to know about the tradition, this year's singer
"Lift Every Voice and Sing” is a poem by NAACP leader James Weldon Johnson in the late 1800s. It has since been sung as a hymn. Johnson’s brother, John Rosamond Johnson, set the poem to music in 1905, ...
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Who is singing the Black national anthem at Super Bowl 59? What to know about Ledisi
Ledisi will perform "Lift Every Voice and Sing," a hymn originally written as a poem by NAACP leader James Weldon Johnson in the late 1800s. This powerful anthem, set to music by his brother John ...