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Special Edition Newsletter |
February/March |
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Spirituals and Slavery: The Underground
Railroad
and Harriet Tubman - February 2014
A local story-teller and singer
visited Dupont Elementary
performing spirituals.
She also explained how slaves
used the lyrics to communicate
with each other on ways to
escape their situations.
I had such a glorious
time celebrating the
culmination of Black
History Month, through
song and story, with
awesome Principal,
Teachers and Students of
Dupont Elementary. Thank
you, Principal
Barbara Shepherd! —
with
Barbara Shepherd.
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Arts In Education - January 2014
Click
here to see video.
Arts Build Supporter, Tekelia Kelly! Click
to hear video what arts build for
@
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Celebrating
African-American/
Black History
February 2012 Edition
"Empowering History, Hope, Purpose, and
Prosperity" |
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Dear Friend,
This year's African-American/Black
History newsletter focuses on the
power of song; the role it has
played in our past, and that it
plays in our lives today. The right
song can do wonders to help
encourage, empower, enlighten, and
equip!
Songs sang by the American Negro
slave not only encouraged them while
working, but also communicated
messages of hope, as well as plans
of escape. Songs like "Go Down
Moses" and "Wade in the Water"
embedded hidden codes, signaling
freedom-seeking slaves on how to use
the "underground railroad". Many
songs sang during this time are
commonly known today as Negro
Spirituals.
Another song that has done much to
encourage and empower throughout the
years is the "Negro National
Anthem", commonly known as "Lift
Every Voice and Sing". This song is
a great poem and inspirational hymn,
eloquently written with lyrics that
are meaningful and insightful.
"Lift Every Voice and Sing" tells
the story of African-Americans'
past: their journey, their
ancestors' faith in God, and God's
faithfulness to them and their
children. Its words are
thought-provoking, and help to
portray the struggle and the
blessing of being delivered from
slavery to freedom.
Spoken and/or sung word is a
powerful thing! With words you
have the power to speak life or
death. (Proverbs 18:21).
That is why it is important to know
the words of songs, and whether they
are life-elevating and
life-enriching.
Songs like Lift Every Voice and
Sing--
[written as a poem by
James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938)
and set to music by his brother
John Rosamond Johnson
(1873-1954) in 1900 (Wikipedia)],
are
empowering songs. "Lift Every
Voice and Sing"--is a song to
remember, for life.
Click here
to download your FREE! copy of "Lift
Every Voice and Sing" and "Did
You Know" Black History Facts
sheet.
God
bless you,
Tekelia C. Kelly
Sisters In Business.Net
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The
Negro National Anthem: "Lift Every Voice and
Sing!"
Pictured above
Tekelia Kelly singing Negro
National Anthem "Lift Every Voice And Sing"
at Blue Cross Blue Shields Black History
Month event, honoring the late Dr. Benjamin
Hooks.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
" Lift Every Voice and Sing" — often
called "The Negro National Hymn", "The Negro
National Anthem", "The Black National
Anthem", or "The African-American National
Anthem"— is a song written as a poem by
James Weldon Johnson (1871–1938) and set
to music by his brother
John Rosamond Johnson (1873–1954) in
1900.
History
"Lift Every Voice and Sing" was publicly
performed first as a poem as part of a
celebration of
Lincoln's Birthday on February 12, 1900
by 500 school children at the segregated
Stanton School. Its principal,
James Weldon Johnson, wrote the words to
introduce its honored guest
Booker T. Washington. The poem was later
set to music by Johnson's brother John in
1905. Singing this song quickly became a way
for
African Americans to demonstrate their
patriotism and hope for the future. In
calling for earth and heaven to "ring with
the harmonies of Liberty," they could speak
out subtly against
racism and
Jim Crow laws—and especially the huge
number of
lynchings accompanying the rise of the
Ku Klux Klan at the turn of the century.
In 1919, the
NAACP adopted the song as "The Negro
National Anthem." By the 1920s, copies of
"Lift Every Voice and Sing" could be found
in black churches across the country, often
pasted into the hymnals. In 1939,
Augusta Savage received a
commission from the
World's Fair and created a 16-foot
plaster sculpture called Lift Ev'ry Voice
and Sing. Savage did not have any funds
for a bronze cast, or even to move and store
it, and it was destroyed by bulldozers at
the close of the fair.[1]
During and after the
American Civil Rights Movement, the song
experienced a rebirth, and by the 1970s was
often sung immediately after "The
Star Spangled Banner" at public events
and performances across the
United States where the event had a
significant African-American population Lift
Every Voice and Sing
Lyrics
The first verse is the one most commonly
heard.
Lift every voice and sing, till
earth and heaven ring,
Ring with the harmonies of liberty;
Let our rejoicing rise, high as the
list’ning skies,
Let it resound loud as the rolling
sea.
Sing a song full of the faith
that the dark past has taught us,
Sing a song full of the hope
that the present has brought us;
Facing the rising sun of our new day
begun,
Let us march on till victory is won.
Stony the road we trod, bitter the
chast’ning rod,
Felt in the days when hope unborn
had died;
Yet with a steady beat, have not our
weary feet,
Come to the place for which our
fathers sighed?
We have come over a way
that with tears has been watered.
We have come, treading our path
thro’ the blood of the slaughtered,
Out from a gloomy past, till now we
stand at last
Where the white gleam
of our bright star is cast.
God of our weary years, God of our
silent tears,
Thou who has brought us thus far on
the way;
Thou who hast by thy might, led us
into the light,
Keep us forever in the path, we
pray.
Lest our feet stray from the places
Our God where we met Thee,
Lest our hearts drunk with the wine
of the world
we forget Thee;
Shadowed beneath Thy hand
May we forever stand,
True to our God,
True to our native land.
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Two Great New
Movies Rich in African-American History:
THE HELP & RED
TAILS
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More Songs
To Empower You
Amazing Grace History (A Must See!!!)
AMAZINGLY GREAT STORY that you simply must hear
about "Negro Spirituals" and how they are the
basis for a lot musicology, including white
spirituals like "Amazing Grace".
I love the part about back during slavery "Black
folk down South had more sense by accident than
we do on purpose". And gave the example
"Son, if the mountain was smooth, then you
couldn't climb it."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMF_24cQqT0
Hold
to God's Unchanging Hand
- Time is filled with
swift transition,
Naught of earth unmoved can stand,
Build your hopes on things eternal,
Hold to God’s unchanging hand.
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Refrain:
Hold to God’s unchanging hand,
Hold to God’s unchanging hand;
Build your hopes on things eternal,
Hold to God’s unchanging hand.
- Trust in Him who will not leave you,
Whatsoever years may bring,
If by earthly friends forsaken
Still more closely to Him cling.
- Covet not this world’s vain riches
That so rapidly decay,
Seek to gain the heav’nly treasures,
They will never pass away.
- When your journey is completed,
If to God you have been true,
Fair and bright the home in glory
Your enraptured soul will view.
My Hope Is Built On
Nothing Less
1.
My hope is built on nothing less
than Jesus' blood and righteousness.
I dare not trust the sweetest frame,
but wholly lean on Jesus' name.
Refrain:
On Christ the solid rock I stand,
all other ground is sinking sand;
all other ground is sinking sand.
2. When Darkness veils his lovely face,
I rest on his unchanging grace.
In every high and stormy gale,
my anchor holds within the veil.
(Refrain)
3. His oath, his covenant, his blood
supports me in the whelming flood.
When all around my soul gives way,
he then is all my hope and stay.
(Refrain)
4. When he shall come with trumpet sound,
O may I then in him be found!
Dressed in his righteousness alone,
faultless to stand before the throne!
(Refrain)
I Will Trust in the Lord
Verse
1 I will trust in
the Lord.
I
will trust in the Lord.
I
will trust in the Lord until I die—
I
will trust in the Lord.
I
will trust in the Lord.
I
will trust in the Lord until I die.
Verse
2 I’m goin’ to treat
everybody right.
I’m
goin’ to treat everybody right.
I’m
goin’ to treat everybody right until I die—
I’m
goin’ to treat everybody right.
I’m
goin’ to treat everybody right.
I’m
goin’ to treat everybody right until I die.
Verse
3 I’m goin’ to stay
on the battlefield.
(optional) I’m goin’ to
stay on the battlefield.
I’m
goin’ to stay on the battlefield until I die—
I’m
goin’ to stay on the battlefield.
I’m
goin’ to stay on the battlefield.
I’m
goin’ to stay on the battlefield until I die.
Verse
4 I’m goin’ to stay
on (a/my) bended knee.
(optional) I’m goin’ to
stay on (a/my) bended knee.
I’m
goin’ to stay on (a/my) bended knee until I die—
I’m
goin’ to stay on (a/my) bended knee.
I’m
goin’ to stay on (a/my) bended knee.
I’m
goin’ to stay on (a/my) bended knee until I die.
Verse
5 I’m goin’ to
watch, fight and pray.
I’m
goin’ to watch, fight and pray.
I’m
goin’ to watch, fight and pray until I die—
I’m
goin’ to watch, fight and pray.
I’m
goin’ to watch, fight and pray.
I’m
goin’ to watch, fight and pray until I die.
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United States of America, and to the Republic
for which it stands: one Nation under
God, indivisible, with Liberty and
Justice for all."
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