Closing on a brighter note.
In January, 2009, President Barack Obama had just been inaugurated. It was a hopeful time. The nation's first African American president was beginning his first term in office.
At the time, I wrote a posting that included the words of "Lift Every Voice and Sing," often referred to as the unofficial African-American National anthem.
I returned to "Lift Every Voice and Sing" in 2013, with a new posting which included a video provided by Emory University with the closing song on a night the school honored author Alice Walker, the noted African American author.
"Lift Every Voice and Sing" was written as a poem in 1899 by James Weldon Johnson (1871--1938) and set to music in 1900 by his brother, John Rosamond Johnson (1873--1954).
In the video the young man leading the singing is an Emory graduate, class of 2011. His name is Garrett M. Turner. At that time he was preparing to pursue further graduate work at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland.
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