Bryan Terrell Clark, the speaker Monday at Garden City Community College's Martin Luther King Jr. Day event, invited the students, staff and community members in attendance to stand and sing with him. "This is the black national anthem," Clark said, before leading the first bars of "Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing" during the annual Student Government Assocation's MLK Day event at Conestoga Arena. On Abraham Lincoln's birthday in 1900, 500 segregated school children from Stanton School in Florida for the first time read the words written by their principal, James Weldon Johnson, which would one day be set to music by his brother, John Rosamund Johnson...
