Lift Every Voice and Sing is a mixed media by Linda Weinstock which was uploaded on July 3rd, 2020.
Lift Every Voice and Sing
Lift Every Voice and Sing –
often called “The Black National Anthem”
Copyright@Linda Weinstock. All Rights Reserved
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Title
Lift Every Voice and Sing
Artist
Linda Weinstock
Medium
Mixed Media - Digital Fine Art Technology
Description
Lift Every Voice and Sing –
often called “The Black National Anthem”
Copyright@Linda Weinstock. All Rights Reserved
"Art should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness."
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I am a Multimedia Independent Artist, Storyteller, Designer and Collector based in the United States.
Since 2003 my focus has primarily been photography as a resource for architectural portraiture and visual storytelling in acrylic/ink.
My work is a relationship between my love of color, light and spirituality. I believe every subject has a story to be told and together with my client we create a timeless piece of art.
In 2014, I started teaching myself digital fine art applications. My world took a turn as I started expressing my life through photography and digital fine art. It's exciting to know that I am limited only by my imagination and ingenuity.
The lyrics of Lift Every Voice and Sing serves as a reminder for Black Americans that each generation has had to lift their voices, along with those within their community, to demand and protect their human rights. High as the list'ning skies, Let it resound loud as the rolling sea.
Scholars agree the song, endowed with its deep history of black pride, speaks to the universal human condition.
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Lift Every Voice and Sing – often called “The Black National Anthem” – was written as a poem by NAACP leader James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938) and then set to music by his brother John Rosamond Johnson (1873-1954) in 1899. It was first performed in public in the Johnsons’ hometown of Jacksonville, Florida as part of a celebration of Lincoln’s Birthday on February 12, 1900 by a choir of 500 schoolchildren at the segregated Stanton School, where James Weldon Johnson was principal.
In an inherent Africanism, Weston extends an invitation for the community to join her as she soars to the chorus. “Won’t you sing it with me everybody?” she asks. Having memorized the entire hymn from its repeated incorporation into church services or school assemblies or performances led by youth choir directors, the crowd responds as an ensemble of tens of thousands of voices, stumbling and mumbling over some parts, their fists still raised emphatically in the sky.
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.
Uploaded
July 3rd, 2020
