From the segregated schoolhouse to Beyonce: the power of ‘Lift Every Voice and Sing’

The power of the song 'Lift Every Voice and Sing' has endured for more than a century. The new documentary, 'A New Day Begun: The Black National Anthem' traces the song's origins in the Jim Crow era and its evolution into a defining anthem of Black life and the civil rights movement. The filmmakers explore what its message of resilience, faith and hope—and its promise of a “new day”—means for America today. Journalist and Director of 'A New Day Begun,' Keith Michael Brown says, “a song that started in the segregated South in the small schoolhouse is now on the world stage.”

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