“Are We a Nation?”
Sweet Honey in the Rock
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Individually and collectively, the founding and current members of acclaimed a cappella vocal group Sweet Honey in the Rock have been on the front line of the nation’s civil rights struggles for more than five decades.
Today the group focuses its outrage on the latest embarrassment of modern civilization: Arizona’s immigration law SB-1070. Sweet Honey – Ysaye Maria Barnwell, Nitanju Bolade Casel, Aisha Kahlil, Carol Maillard, Louise Robinson, and (American Sign Language Interpreter) Shirley Childress Saxton.—channel their frustrations in “Are We a Nation?”
Prefacing the song by reading a portion of the Declaration of Independence, the anniversary of which we will celebrate this weekend, Sweet Honey asks us to move beyond the hatred, ignorance, apathy, anti-intellectualism and misunderstanding that allow such a law to happen and uphold the inalienable rights on which our country was founded.
Written by : Bob Marovich
Bob Marovich is a gospel music historian, author, and radio host. Founder of Journal of Gospel Music blog (formally The Black Gospel Blog) and producer of the Gospel Memories Radio Show.
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