CNNduring a conversation with host and journalist
Don Lemon during the
Silence Is Not an Option podcast. “I just think that if we were to make this hymn our national hymn, it will help us to really create a climate within which we can find common ground.”
The song, recognized as the Black National Anthem, was written as a poem by
James Weldon Johnson and set to music composed by
John Rosamond Johnson. According to the NAACP
, the song was first performed in Jacksonville, Fl. during former President
Abraham Lincoln’s Birthday on February 12, 1900.
Today, the powerful lyrics are often sung at the beginning of sports events, especially where Black athletes are contenders and regional celebrations of Black culture including Juneteenth and Black History Month celebrations.
The State of the Party and Where Biden Can Take It
Prospect Staff Writer Alexander Sammonâs Best of 2020
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Iâll spare you, fair reader, any breathlessly rehearsed platitudes about 2020 and how much it sucked. Below are six pieces that, from my vantage, had an impact this year, on issues I think will play an important role in the year to come, none of them especially optimistic.Â
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One (accurate) version of the story of Prop 22 is that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia picked a fight in the front yard of American progressivism in order to protect its investment in Uber, and in so doing created the blueprint for the final destruction of organized labor by creating a third worker category. And sold it in the language of racial justice to California voters, who gobbled it up! The future of labor is right here; the future undoing of the Democratic Party is right here too, given that organized labor is the only institution left that reliably drives votes for t
The new president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) California-Hawaii State Conference is keeping in step with a national movement making strides to level the playing field for Black women long underrepresented in both private and public sector leadership roles. Like organizations and companies around the country, California’s conference of the oldest civil rights organization in the country is leading by increasing professional opportunities and offering critical career support for Black women.
Kickstarting his tenure, the NAACP State Conference President Rick L. Callender announced last week that
Betty Williams has been hired as the organization’s executive director.
New Cal NAACP Chief Appoints Sac Woman Executive Director
By Antonio Ray Harvey, California Black Media
Published December 17, 2020
Betty Williams (Courtesy)
The new president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) California-Hawaii State Conference is keeping in step with a national movement making strides to level the playing field for Black women long underrepresented in both private and public sector leadership roles. Like organizations and companies around the country, California’s conference of the oldest civil rights organization in the country is leading by increasing professional opportunities and offering critical career support for Black women.
Kickstarting his tenure, the NAACP State Conference President Rick L. Callender announced last week that Betty Williams has been hired as the organization’s executive director.
(CBM) – The new president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) California-Hawaii State Conference is keeping in step with a national movement making strides to level the playing field for Black women long underrepresented in both private and public sector leadership roles. Like organizations and companies around the country, California’s conference of the oldest civil rights organization in the country is leading by increasing professional opportunities and offering critical career support for Black women.
Betty Williams
Kickstarting his tenure, the NAACP State Conference President Rick L. Callender announced last week that Betty Williams has been hired as the organization’s executive director.