INSPIRATION FOR SUBMISSION: What inspires me to sing is that I love it and I love to put smiles on people’s faces. For me it’s important that people learn the history and struggles of Black people. I chose this song because I feel like it reaches out to Black people and it encourages them to raise their voices and to not let ourselves be treated in such an inhuman way with all of the injustices, police brutalities and discrimination. We all want to be accepted and treated equally and to be given the chance to succeed in life, regardless of our colour.
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Rep. James Clyburn, D-S.C., wants a song about faith and resilience long revered in the Black community to become the national hymn and help unite the country after centuries of racial turmoil.
Clyburn, the House majority whip, plans to introduce a measure as early as this week that would make “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” known as the Black national anthem, the national hymn and give it a special place alongside the country’s anthem, The Star-Spangled Banner.
“To make it a national hymn, I think, would be an act of bringing the country together. It would say to people, ‘You aren’t singing a separate national anthem, you are singing the country’s national hymn,’” said Clyburn, the highest-ranking Black American in Congress. “The gesture itself would be an act of healing. Everybody can identify with that song.”