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Jay Z performs at (barack obama at the Neighborhood Ball)inaugural.Obamarock rap party for 2009
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Apr
1
Jan
25
I booked a ticket onto United’s Inaugural flights from IAD-KWI, and back KWI-IAD. Sorry, I really like that arrangement from their Dragon commercial, so again it starts this one out. 
Duration : 0:6:13
Jan
8
US Presidential Election Results, from George Washington’s unanimous selection in 1789 to Barack Obama’s handy victory over John McCain in 2008.
Duration : 0:4:57
Jan
8
Since I cannot attend the Inauguration, here is my own personal tribute to and celebration of — as a Black man and a proud citizen — the historic election of Barack Obama as President of the United States, an event I never thought I would live to see in my lifetime.
Historic African Americans Featured (in order): Crispus Attucks, Dred Scott, Nat Turner, Harriet Tubman, John Brown, Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, Madam CJ Walker, WEB Dubois, Booker T Washington, Marcus Garvey, Jack Johnson, Jackie Robinson, Dr. Charles Drew, Rosa Park, Malcolm X, Marian Anderson, Martin Luther King Jr, Muhammad Ali, Shirley Chisholm, and Mae Jemison
“Life Every Voice And Sing” aka “The Negro National Anthem” – Video Edit
(written by James Weldon Johnson)
Lift every voice and sing,
till earth and heaven ring,
Ring with the harmonies of liberty;
Let our rejoicing rise
High as the listening skies,
Let it resound loud as the rolling sea.
Sing a song full of the faith that the
dark past has taught us,
Sing a song full of the hope that the present has brought us;
facing the rising sun of our new day begun,
let us march on till victory is won.
Stony the road we trod,
bitter the chastening rod,
felt in the days when hope unborn had died;
yet with a steady beat,
have not our weary feet
come to the place
for which our fathers died?
We have come over a way that with tears have been watered,
We have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered,
out from the gloomy past,
till now we stand at last
where the white gleam
of our bright star is cast.
Lest our feet stray from the places, our God, where we met thee;
lest our hearts drunk with the wine of the world, we forget thee,
shadowed beneath thy hand,
may we forever stand,
true to our God,
true to our native land.
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The content of this video comes from different sources and the figures, incidents and historic references are meant only as a broad and general overview of Black American Historic Fugures, NOT an exhaustive survey. (in other words, if you believe that some people should have been featured and others omitted, that really isn’t the point of this tribute.)
Music: “Lift Every Voice and Sing” also known as “The Negro National Anthem,” performed by the Boston Pops.
(No copyright infringement intended; for entertainment purposes only.)
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Dec
17
2009 INAUGURAL BALL & COMMUNITY CELEBRATION.Yes We Can Dance! Dance your ya-yas out from 7 to 10 PM on this historic evening with DJ SEAN “GATOR BOY” DONOVAN.
http://www.gatorboyproductions.com Suggested donation is $10/person or $20/family. This event brought to you by the NW Dance Network Fun Posse and the Mount Baker Community Club. Join your community at this unprecedented gala, complete with dancing, merrymaking, and fun dance performances. All ages, all are welcome. Mount Baker Community Club, 2811 Mt. Rainier Dr S, Seattle. More info call 206-781-1238 or visit http://www.nwdance.net.
http://www.seattleswingdanceetc.com/fetch.htm
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Nov
13
Barack Obama’s Inauguration in Washington D. C. on Jan. 20, 2009. Early morning scenes from the 13th Street Security Checkpoint to access the Parade route, the beginning of the Inaugural Parade and the Historic Inaugural Ball at the Washington Historical Society.
Tags: Presidential Inauguration, Roger Kirkman, Diana Stephens, President Obama, President Barack Obama, United States Presidential Inaugurations, Allan Stephens, Nation’s Capital, Presidential Limosine, Presidential motorcade, Secret Service Security Checkpoint, Inaugural party.
RHS Productions
Video and editing by Robert Stephens.
robertstephens@cox.net
Duration : 0:4:11
Oct
27
Aretha Franklin preforms “My Country, ‘Tis of Thee”
January 20, 2009
(C)ABC News
Duration : 0:3:15
Sep
24
Barack Obama Inauguration Day [OATH] (Historic Moment!)The President Barack Obama Swearing In D.C
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Sep
24
April 30, 1789
AMONG the vicissitudes incident to life no event could have filled me with greater anxieties than that of which the notification was transmitted by your order, and received on the 14th day of the present month. On the one hand, I was summoned by my country, whose voice I can never hear but with veneration and love, from a retreat which I had chosen with the fondest predilection, and, in my flattering hopes, with an immutable decision, as the asylum of my declining years—a retreat which was rendered every day more necessary as well as more dear to me by the addition of habit to inclination, and of frequent interruptions in my health to the gradual waste committed on it by time. On the other hand, the magnitude and difficulty of the trust to which the voice of my country called me, being sufficient to awaken in the wisest and most experienced of her citizens a distrustful scrutiny into his qualifications, could not but overwhelm with despondence one who (inheriting inferior endowments from nature and unpracticed in the duties of civil administration) ought to be peculiarly conscious of his own deficiencies. In this conflict of emotions all I dare aver is that it has been my faithful study to collect my duty from a just appreciation of every circumstance by which it might be affected. All I dare hope is that if, in executing this task, I have been too much swayed by a grateful remembrance of former instances, or by an affectionate sensibility to this transcendent proof of the confidence of my fellow-citizens, and have thence too little consulted my incapacity as well as disinclination for the weighty and untried cares before me, my error will be palliated by the motives which mislead me, and its consequences be judged by my country with some share of the partiality in which they originated. 1
Such being the impressions under which I have, in obedience to the public summons, repaired to the present station, it would be peculiarly improper to omit in this first official act my fervent supplications to that Almighty Being who rules over the universe, who presides in the councils of nations, and whose providential aids can supply every human defect, that His benediction may consecrate to the liberties and happiness of the people of the United States a Government instituted by themselves for these essential purposes, and may enable every instrument employed in its administration to execute with success the functions allotted to his charge. In tendering this homage to the Great Author of every public and private good, I assure myself that it expresses your sentiments not less than my own, nor those of my fellow-citizens at large less than either. No people can be bound to acknowledge and adore the Invisible Hand which conducts the affairs of men more than those of the United States.
Duration : 0:2:51
Aug
26
Coverage from the United Kingdom media of the election of Barack Obama as the 44th President of the United States.
Harriet Cass, BBC Radio 4 Six Oclock News
Jon Snow, Channel 4 News
Huw Edwards, BBC Ten Oclock News.
Sir Trevor McDonald, ITV News at Ten
Eddie Mair, BBC Radio 4 PM
Duration : 0:10:0
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