" Songs of Flight " illuminates these stories with emotional precision and musical depth, as loving homages that return the ...

American currency as we know it today has been in circulation since 1792. Founding Fathers, past presidents, and a selection ...

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Anderson made the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in the nation’s capital her stage. Howard advertised the event with a flyer that read, “The D.A.R. would not let her sing in Constitution Hall… The ...

The National Mall and Memorial Parks is conducting its annual tradition of commemorating Marian Anderson’s “seminal” concert at the Lincoln Memorial this Easter, with this year’s holiday ...

Five years after a burst pipe destroyed much of the late singer Marian Anderson's former Philadelphia home, her home has been restored and reopened. The museum highlights the life of Philadelphia ...

Bert Bathiany, Moeller: He directed the Crusaders to a 14-2 record and their first appearance in the Division I state championship game since 2013. Justice Burnam, Anderson: The senior quarterback led ...

Decades before Martin Luther King Jr. gave his “I Have A Dream Speech” at the Lincoln Memorial, Marian Anderson stood on the same steps and sang for an audience of 75,000 after being denied ...

Decades before Martin Luther King Jr. gave his “I Have A Dream Speech” at the Lincoln Memorial, Marian Anderson stood on the same steps and sang for an audience of 75,000 after being denied the chance ...

While she's best known for her 1939 Lincoln Memorial performance of "America ... CEO of the National Marian Anderson Museum, said. The museum is home to the phone Anderson used to answer the ...

Instead, she sang to a crowd of 75,000 on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. Marian Anderson singing on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial at the Easter Sunday Open Air concert in 1939.

On February 27th, 1897 African-American contralto Marian Anderson was born in Philadelphia. With a career full of monumental firsts and acts of heroism, Anderson’s name is forever tied towards the ...