>Not sure how many of you watched the NBA All Star game tonight, but a
>remarkable thing happened. R&B singers Alicia Keyes and Angie Stone were
>slated to sing "America the Beautiful" before the game. They started into
>the song, but after about 6 bars, immediately shifted to singing "Lift Every
>Voice and Sing," otherwise known as the Black National Anthem, written by
>poet and civil rights leader James Weldon Johnson.
>
>After finishing that, they did go back to "American The Beautiful," but
>changed the final chorus to: "America/And EVERYONE/God shed his grace on
>thee."
>
>The crowd went wild.
In an approving way, I hope. Which was it?
Doug