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 ...

You might never have imagined that Saddam Hussein would be instrumental, in fact, in a “Star-Spangled Banner” performance. But a U.S. military veteran who learned to play a piano once owned by ...

O say does that star-spangled banner yet wave O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave? Leepson: It’s interesting that it’s a question. It’s rhetorical, and it’s part of ...