“The Star-Spangled Banner,” officially became the national anthem of the United States of America in 1931. Before then, the anthem was one of America’s popular patriotic songs for more than a hundred years. Who Wrote The Star-Spangled Banner? The anthem has its humble beginnings on Sunday, September 14, 1814, when Francis Scott Key watched […]
America is in an era where problematic iconographies such as Aunt Jemima and Uncle Ben are being revised. Protesters in San Francisco pushed over a statue of Francis Scott Key. The composer of the national anthem was a known slaveholder. Additionally, Key once said African-Americans were “a distinct and inferior race of people, which all […]
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