“The Star-Spangled Banner” wasn’t actually adopted as ... going from a question in the first stanza to ending with an exclamation point. It’s a wave of patriotism that sweeps the country ...

The poem had four stanzas, although today many Americans only know the first. A few days after ... during the 1918 World Series. “The Star-Spangled Banner” was officially adopted as the ...

One of the first musicians to interpret the “Star Spangled Banner” in a way that displayed a Black consciousness was the piano prodigy known as “Blind Tom.” Born into slavery in Georgia in ...

Nov. 7): The NAACP wants the Star Spangled Banner removed as our National Anthem because the author was a slave owner and the third stanza of the poem that is the basis for the Anthem is “racist”.