Mass Choir performs Negro National Anthem at DSU

[DEACONRORY]

The tempo is wayyyyyyyyyyy to slow

[sillygal25]

Great rendition!!!!! I sung this version in college VA State Univ and I always loved this version!!! And those that have a problem with the title, do your research!

[Tommygboy]

hello, can someone plzzz Enlighten me what does it means Negro national anthem? Since when we have this anthem?

[rhmaukaable]

Excellent!

[dmp97]

I like the traditional version of the Negro National Anthem; however, I support everyone's right to interpret/express it in any way they please. As a proud graduate of UMES/HBCU, I am happy with this rendition.

[ubcc12152010]

A musical sin!!!!

[dariusb894]

Sorry, no no no, sorry, no on, please this is a classic and should be performed as originally arranged, you dont see people ablibbing to Bach, or have you? This is shameful for my ears to endure!

[onecharmingprince]

Pitch really went flat in the third verse and the tempo lagged throughout...

[baltimoresshorty]

What is so sad most people born in the 80's would not know about this song and or its importance because school were ordered not to teach and or sing it after about 1987 I believe....................my daughter is 10 and she never heard of it until I taught her........and my 28 year old nephew had no idea what I was talking about......sad.

[333smiles]

Why all the hateful comments here? Why can't we just say loving, positive things -this is an amazing, important song, sang very beautifully, and thank you for sharing it... peace.

[randyalexander]

great but ... could ur conducter speed it up just a tad

[123tallTOO]

I will say that they are going too slow for me

[CheyForeverYoung96]

it's a great song and it's a song about how far blacks have come and i bet it smells great in there too(:

[nnenna1974]

Lift Every Voice and Sing" — is a song written as a poem by James Weldon Johnson (1871–1938) and set to music by his brother John Rosamond Johnson (1873–1954) in 1900. it was publicly performed first as a poem as part of a celebration of Lincoln's Birthday on February 12, 1900 by 500 school children at the segregated Stanton School. Its principal, James Weldon Johnson, wrote the words to introduce its honored guest Booker T. Washington...SOOO jbrown2396 it was here before you OR myself.

[Gary2837]

@nnenna1974 And, I might add that it is THE MOST inclusive song ever written. Inclusivity is what is it mostly about and on an equal basis. At every level we have been excluded and finally a song that unites us all including the world. Notice the title "Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing". The operative word "Ev'ry" (all voices). I must say, as well, it is performed too slowly. Locate Oakwood University Aeolians or Pine Forge Academy and you'll get the correct tempo!

[dvschilpp]

@nnenna1974 Maybe so, but 'DelawareStateU' was wrong when posting it as the 'Negro National Anthem." It should instead be posted as 'Lift Every Voice and Sing." I have no problem with the song, but I understand jbrown2369's frustration completely.

[Darrynn1]

@dvschilpp If you search this song in any Aftican American hymnal, you will find it listed as "Negro National Anthem." Therefore, DelawareStateU is correct in how it has titled this video. As a proud alumnus of Delaware State University, we value diversity and unity as the United States of America, but hold fast to the cultural identity we hold as an HBCU.

[dvschilpp]

@Darrynn1 Well then I stand corrected. You learn something new everyday. It's a great song by the way.

[kenichol]

For all the many years our nation failed to give blacks the same rights & opportunities as whites, it would have been hard to sing of the liberty, justice & equality of The Star Spangled Banner when you couldn't be in the park, at the lunch counter, voting booth. This song is such a beautiful song, faithful to the best our country promised to be.

[MagnoliaTina]

The "Negro National Anthem" is what you heard. It definitely is not the same. If you listened to the words you would understand why. Hopefully, you will come to learn that. As for the comments, it shows your ignorance. Please post on pages where ignorance is bliss.

[supersonic71097]

WHERE'S THE COCANE???

[futurefloridaboy]

THIS IS REAL MUSIC. 

[screamsongdotcom]

Where is this negro nation they're singing about? Detroit?

[southendxgf]

exactly which "Nation" is the Negro one. I'd like to be sure to not visit.

[leohart761]

@southendxgf

stupid bitch

[leohart761]

you got your nerve............if you dont like our national anthem then dont view it then stupid racist bitch

[LVhatersofh8rs]

How cums dey not rappin bout da hood or gitin there swerve on. Oh lawds yes dey need to krunk dat bitch up.

[nwillitts]

bunch of bullshit.

segregation now.

we tried-we failed.

[BlueJames19]

It should be titled "The Playful Negro"

[sitetank]

I bet it smells terrible in there

[Schlange556]

*facepalm*

[KRN762]

Shouldn't they be "rapping" the song?

[KRN762]

@jbrown2396

Watch out. Someone will hit you with the "racist label club" in order to shut you up...

BTW. I agree with ya 110 percent.

[luvbenet]

Whoever commented that this is not the Negro National Anthem needs to do their research!!! Of course that's what it is. Please do not continue on in your ignorance, especially if you're African American.

[ivorytunes]

@lusefer and @blizzleman, this is definitely the black national anthem. My grandma made me play the song for her on the piano, learn the words, and read up on the story of it. It's by James Weldon Johnson, and John Rosamond Johnson (brothers). It's usually sung at black formal functions, and pretty much every black Church service during black history month. #great song

[ivorytunes]

They sounds great, but I have yet to hear a choir sing this song better than my school: Oakwood Univeristy.

[4TiffanyNicole]

@blizzleman. "Lift Every Voice And Sing" is definitely the Negro National Anthem. It was adopted by the NAACP in the early 1900s. Look up the lyrics.

[blizzleman]

choir is great..but its not really a "negro anthem" we sing this in my church its a traditional christian song

[whyspeaktou]

@blizzleman people sing the National Anthem in the shower that does not mean it is not the National Anthem.

[lusefer]

amazing choir.....jus didnt know there was a negro national anthem XD

[Backatwon]

Slowed down but still a beautiful song !!..I graduated from Lincoln University and proud !...respect choirs !!

[whyspeaktou]

Having sung this  version they have slowed this down

[HUBassProdigy]

This is painfully slow... #justsayin

[AlexisBryanne]

I can't until I am apart of DSU . & Get to be in the choir there .

[phiffer14]

OOO wow... this day was great...