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- <text id=90TT1119>
- <title>
- Apr. 30, 1990: Lifted High
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Apr. 30, 1990 Vietnam 15 Years Later
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- PEOPLE, Page 79
- Lifted High
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- <body>
- <p>By Emily Mitchell/Reported by Wendy Cole
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- <p> No, Melba Moore did not write Lift Every Voice and Sing,
- though she's often asked if she did. Her new version of the
- black national anthem could make it a hit for the first time
- since it was co-written in 1900 by black poet James Weldon
- Johnson. "For black kids who don't know their history," says
- Moore, who sang the hymn in a Washington school last week after
- a meeting with black Congressmen, "the song provides a bond."
- Profits from the song--the first single from her new album,
- Soul Exposed--will go to charity.
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- </body>
- </article>
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