Mizzou men's basketball freshman Annor Boateng's love for music and academics have led to strong time management skills and ...

His younger brother, Kyle, plays alto sax and would have shown up to the jam but got ... Marc Ferris is a freelance journalist based in Cortlandt. He is the author of Star-Spangled Banner: The ...

At any sporting event in the United States the crowd will – sincerely and fervently – clasp their hands to their hearts, doff their baseball caps and join in “The Star-Spangled Banner”. The same brand ...

This show is clearly all about the new era. "The moment that really brought tears to my eyes was Beyoncé performing 'The Star Spangled Banner' at the beginning of the show and transitioning into ...

opening the show with "Ameriican Requiem" before serenading the crowd with her Beatles cover "Blackbiird" and the Star Spangled Banner. Then she kicked the energy up a notch with her anthem ...

Like so many famous songs of yore, "The Star-Spangled Banner" started as a poem, called “The Defence of Fort McHenry.” It was written by Francis Scott Key in 1814 during the War of 1812.

On Thursday, the Alabama Senate passed a bill mandating that public school students in grades K-12 recite the first stanza of "The Star-Spangled Banner" at least once a week during school hours.

she segued from “Ameriican Requiem” to her delicate yet soulful rendition of the Beatles’ late-1960s “Blackbird,” then went further back still to “The Star-Spangled Banner,” which ...

But his collection of fragments from the Star-Spangled Banner—one red swatch, one white—made him feel less like a have than a have-not. A friend possessed a blue scrap, and, without one for ...

Susan Biddle / The Washington Post / Getty Images The Star-Spangled Banner, the flag that inspired Francis Scott Key to write the lyrics to our national anthem in 1814—its appearance above Fort ...