Hey everyone. Today we are bringing you a rerun of an episode we ran last June

June June 19th about lift every voice and sing what's come to be known as the

Black National Anthem. A little inside baseball about putting together the show I was

planning to rerun this next week closer to June 19th and then I realized that we have this special series

running all next week during that time which we are hard at work on right now. So here's our

Juneteenth episode today a little early to get you ready for the week of

Juneteenth. Honestly I think it's a great episode and stick around to the end

for probably the cutest moment in the history of the show.

Definitely the cutest moment in the history of this show.

Anyway, enjoy.

Hello and welcome to this day in esoteric political history from

Radiotopia. My name is Jody Avergan. Well look we're here to mark

Juneteenth the holiday commemorating the emancipation of

enslaved people in this country. We've done a proper episode on that by the way, on the

roots of Juneteenth. It was a really good episode, I think. People can go check

that out. We'll put a link to that in the show notes so we were

thinking about other stories that we could tell on this moment and we figured that on and

around this day you might be hearing one particular song a fair amount.

Lift every voice and sing, commonly known as the Black National Anthem.

Lift every voice and sing, be with the me, meet with the harm on these of us of the monies of liberty.

then our rejoicing rise high as the listing

skies that if we sound listening skies, let it resouve out,

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