Performance by Pearl-Cohn Entertainment Magnet High School

Title

Performance by Pearl-Cohn Entertainment Magnet High School

Performer

Pearl-Cohn Entertainment Magnet High School

Date Uploaded

March 24, 2013

Rights

Pearl-Cohn Entertainment Magnet High School, 2013. Listed as "A Gospel Tribute to Martin Luther King, Jr. " and Licensed to YouTube by Syntax Creative (on behalf of Central South).

Narrative

This video is an excerpt from the documentary film, “Music Makes Us,” about the Pearl-Cohn Entertainment Magnet High School's interpretation and performance of “Lift Every Voice and Sing.” The song features student performer and sings the threads of Martin Luther King Jr.'s “let it ring” and “let freedom ring (all over the world)”; the performance ends with an original rap beginning at 5:13, followed by an a capella performance of the chorus, “we keep marching on/till victory is won.”