By: Tadi Abedje Williams performed the song “Lift Every Voice and Sing” after “The Star-Spangled Banner” was sang at the “A Capitol Fourth” celebration on PBS. She hosted the event last year during the COVID-19 pandemic, but things are starting to open now with several restrictions being lifted. “It’s about unity. It’s about this amazing country that is based on democracy and realizing that we left the British to be free, but our government works because we have all those things in place. So, it’s celebrating the liberty and the structure we started as Americans, which also includes all different colors that helped build this country,” Williams said in an interview with Liana Brackett on Entertainment Studios. The “Lift Every Voice and Sing” song, also known as the Black national anthem, was originally written as a poem by […]
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