Black National anthem sang at MLB game? :dwillhuh:

[Buck Seventy]

If you attended an all black school in the 80s, it was sang at every assembly. At least in Brooklyn

That was case in Harlem as well. I remember at one assembly, we sang it in Swahili in support of Nelson Mandela/protesting Apartheid.

 

[SCJoe]

Went to school on the north end/west side of Detroit and they did the Black National anthem too.

 

[Spatial Paradox]

It’s been so long since I’ve heard this

If you attended an all black school in the 80s, it wss sang at every assembly. At least in Brooklyn

It was the same in the 90s, at least at the schools I went to.

 

[NYC Rebel]

It’s been so long since I’ve heard this



It was the same in the 90s, at least at the schools I went to.

I gotta test my little man when he gets back from camp. I don't think he knows this song. I failed....

 

[NYC Rebel]

Went to PS 399 as a child in elementary school

Our Principal Mrs. Roberston made the entire school sing it EVERY MORNING. That and "The Greatest Love of All" by Whitney Houston.

I'm old....we sang both songs.....but we sang "The Greatest Love of All" earlier version by George Benson.

 

[ExodusNirvana]

I'm old....we sang both songs.....but we sang "The Greatest Love of All" earlier version by George Benson.

Yoooo funny you say that!

So right around 2nd grade, one day me and my folks are driving around. My parents were from the older generation so they didn't listen to hip hop in the car, we listened to a lot of Light FM, CBS FM, CD 101.9, etc. So my Pops is flipping through the stations and shyt.

And we land on what I'm guessing was Light FM because it was easy music playing...and lo and behold the George Benson version comes on.

Man I sat there in the backseat thinking like WTF...why is this man singing Whitney Houston song??

 

[ExodusNirvana]

We also sang "My Country Tis of Thee"

Not no Star Spangled Banner

 

[LezJepzin]

That's my baseball team

 

[LezJepzin]

Went to school on the north end/west side of Detroit and they did the Black National anthem too.

My high school was just outside of Sac and we had it performed numerous times too.

 

[AVXL]

In New Orleans, black neighborhood elementary schools taught us to recite it. At least in the late 80s/Early 90s ( yeah, I'm old).

That era was still in time that schools still taught us about black identity. I learn about Paul Laurence Dunbar in the second grade.

I first learned it in Kindergarten and that's how our day started every day until I graduated. This was the early 90s so just like you said, black educators in predominantly black schools made black pride & knowing black history a priority.

Went to PS 399 as a child in elementary school

Our Principal Mrs. Roberston made the entire school sing it EVERY MORNING. That and "The Greatest Love of All" by Whitney Houston.

That's beautiful to hear, it's a great anthem

I learned this in third grade.

James Weldon Johnson is actually a good poet unlike Francis Scott Key, so of course it sounds better (and is more appropriate for the struggling-to-be-great cesspit that America is).

Francis Scott Key was anti abolitionist and a notorious racist in the DMV area. fukk that clown