New Haven School Children Sing Black National Anthem in Celebrationof Songwriter James Weldon Johnson.

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M2 PRESSWIRE-14 March 2008-Yale University: New Haven School Children Sing Black National Anthem in Celebrationof Songwriter James Weldon Johnson(C)1994-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD

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New Haven, Conn. -- A chorus of 1,000 New Haven school children singing the inspiring "Lift Every Voice and Sing," popularly known as the "Black National Anthem," will be the first of two events at Yale on April 4 celebrating the life and spirit of the song's writer, James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938), and the rich collection of African American arts and letters at Yale's Beinecke Library that bears his name.

The morning performance of "Lift Every Voice and Sing" will take place at 10:30, with New Haven Public School children filling Yale's Battell...

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