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Ravita Jazz Presents Songs Of Justice And Freedom at Mr. Henry's Restaurant

Where

Mr. Henry's Restaurant
601 Pennsylvania Ave Se
Washington, DC
Map
(202) 546-8412

When

Sat, February 15, 2025
7:00 pm

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Our concert includes songs written from the days of slavery through 2000, reflecting important benchmarks in social justice. beginning with "Wade in the Water." a Jubilee song (spiritual) believed to be associated with the Underground Railroad. "Lift Every Voice and Sing" is a hymn with lyrics by the Johnson brothers that premiered in 1900. "The NAACP promoted the hymn as a "Negro national anthem" in 1917 and it is referred to as the "Black national anthem" today. From the 1920's. we present Fats Waller's "Black and Blue." and from the 1940's we offer "Straighten up and Fly Right" written by Nat King Cole and Irving Mills...

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