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New San Francisco Giants manager Bob Melvin has instituted a new rule for his club in his first year with the the franchise, and it’s difficult to miss during spring training. Melvin is requiring every person in the team’s dugout to stand for the national anthem, and he explained why. “It’s all about the perception that we’re out there ready to play,” Melvin said, per The Athletic. “That’s it. You want your team ready to play, and I want the other team to notice it, too. It’s really as simple as that.” Melvin also made it clear his reasoning has...

This coming Sunday, at the most widely viewed sporting event in America, the Super Bowl, the National Football League will feature the singing of "Lift Every Voice and Sing," the song first known as the "Negro national anthem" and now known as the "black national anthem." In order to ensure that those present at the game and the more than 100 million people watching on television cannot avoid hearing it, the "black national anthem" will, according to the schedule I have seen, be played after the actual national anthem of the United States. If that is the case, this will...

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The NHL made history before Saturday night’s Winnipeg Jets game against the Colorado Avalanche. The Jets were celebrating South Asian Heritage Night at the Canada Life Centre, which featured a beautiful rendition of O Canada sung in Punjabi, a first for the league. The singers were students from the local Amber Trails School’s kindergarten to grade 8 choir, which is the first school in Manitoba to offer a bilingual English-Punjabi program. This marks another incredible and unique way that NHL teams have celebrated Canada’s diverse nation of hockey fans. Though it may seem like a small gesture, it can help...

Throughout the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup, one of the biggest and loudest storylines surrounding the United States Women’s National Team had nothing to do with soccer, but whether or not some players on the team sang the national anthem before the matches. But despite the consistent media discourse, there was very little actual conversation about this controversy from those covering the event or the USWNT themselves. And it sounds like that was an intentional decision. United States Women’s National Team beat writer Meg Linehan of The Athletic, revealed that the lack of coverage regarding the national anthem controversy was...

US women’s team refuse to sing national anthem before World Cup draw with Holland. Six players take part in silent protest labelled ‘disrespectful’ but Martina Navratilova tells critics to 'get a grip'. The US women’s football team have sparked a divisive row at the World Cup after six players elected not to sing the national anthem in a silent ‘protest’ that was labelled “embarrassing” and “disrespectful”. The defending world champions risked the ire of the American public for the second time in five days yesterday when more than half of the team stayed silent before their group game against Holland,...

Most members of the US women’s soccer team stayed silent during the national anthem before its World Cup opener Friday against newcomers Vietnam — who passionately belted their nation’s tune. The majority of the reigning women’s World Cup champion team stared stoically ahead as the “Star Spangled Banner” blasted across New Zealand’s Eden Park arena. Only five of the 11 players who stood on the field for the anthem — with young, aspiring players standing before them — placed their hands over their hearts, while their six teammates kept their digits clasped behind their backs ... Only three USWNT players...

The Rushingbrook Children's Choir was singing inside the US Capitol on May 26 when a Capitol Police officer directed a congressional staffer to stop the show Rasbach said the officer called the performance a 'demonstration' and said some were offended by the performance Performances are 'not allowed in the US Capitol without the proper approval,' and the interference was 'due to a miscommunication,' a PD spokesperson said A children's choir was told to stop singing the National Anthem by Capitol Police because it was deemed a 'demonstration,' but police insist it was a 'miscommunication.' The Rushingbrook Children's Choir - based...

Guess who stood for the national anthem? Starting in 2020, WNBA start Brittney Griner said she and her teammates would protest the national anthem. Previously, "During a game between the Phoenix Mercury and the Los Angeles Sparks, the two teams walked off the court while the National Anthem played. Interestingly enough, Griner mentioned that this will not be the last time she would walk off the court."But 10-months in a Russian prison later, and the Biden administration swapped her for a notorious international arms trafficker, the "Merchant of Death" Viktor Bout last December...Griner (red jacket) and Bout pass each other...

When NFL players took a knee during the National Anthem in 2016, a tradition was born at Rainbow Oaks Restaurant. Owners Duke and Jonell Maples, who remodeled and reopened the restaurant in 2009, decided to start playing the National Anthem at noon, seven days a week. "It was my way of waving my middle finger at the NFL," said the retired Marine. The restaurant is filled with patriotic memorabilia and American flags. A Marine Corps flag flies under the American flag atop the restaurant and inside, it's obvious the clientele has support for and by the military and law enforcement....

A viral video of patrons standing up for the National Anthem inside a Southern California bar garnered disgust among TikTok users who left thousands of horrified comments on the post. The 14-second video posted by a user identified as 'Paulina' shows roughly a half dozen individuals standing for the Star-Spangled Banner as it played on a TV screen. 'By far the most dangerous situation I've ever been in,' Paulina wrote alongside the hashtags 'godblessamerica,' 'getout,' 'illegal,' and 'whitepeoplethings.' The video was taken at the Rainbow Oaks Restaurant in Fallbrook - a city located around 50 miles northeast of San Diego....

The sight of people standing with their hand over their heart for the National Anthem at a Southern California restaurant appeared to shock and horrify TikTok users. In a viral video posted to the social media platform last week, about a dozen people are shown standing for the Star-Spangled Banner as it plays on a television screen in the bar area of Rainbow Oaks Restaurant in Fallbrook, California. One TikTok user who was dining at the establishment posted the video with the caption, “By far the most dangerous situation I’ve ever been in.” She used the hashtags #godblessamerica. #getout, #illegal,...

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A TikToker's video of a restaurant playing the national anthem is sparking debate on the popular social media platform.Paulina (@paulinappa_0) took the video at Rainbow Oaks Country Market in Fallbrook, California, which shows several diners standing up out of respect for the song. She found the situation to be "dangerous" and several other TikTok users also shared similar experiences they had at other restaurants, which they too found to be unnerving.

Ubangi is the name of a river in central Africa. In the Oxford handbook of African languages, based upon the typological resemblances with the Kwa-Kru languages, the author saw a relationship with the name/word to the Nigritic section of the Sudan languages. Ubangi is also the name of African peoples living in the Republic of the Congo in the Congo River Basin west of Mossaka. Ubangi is also an old slang word people from Wyoming called people from Utah, implying people from Utah slept with sheep. I take the time to make these tutorial distinctions, because W.C. Fields used the...

CNN anchor Don Lemon serenaded the network’s audience on Friday with a rendition of “Lift Every Voice,” known widely as the Black national anthem. During a taped interview with actor and singer Sheryl Lee Ralph, who will be preforming the song before Sunday’s Super Bowl, Lemon broke out in song. “I don’t know. I was — I felt like I should do it in the taping. Now, why did I do that?” Lemon told his co-hosts when “CNN This Morning” cut back to the studio. “Well, you made our day. Our week,” co-anchor Poppy Harlow said. “Yeah, look, that we...

The ex-Virginia Tech soccer player who was penalized over her refusal to kneel during a 2020 Black Lives Matter protest will reportedly be awarded a $100,000 settlement. What's the background? Kiersten Hening claimed that she had lost her starting position on Virginia Tech's Hokies women's soccer team after she elected not to take part in a so-called pre-game unity ceremony on Sept. 12, 2020, in support of the scandal-plagued BLM movement. She indicated that her refusal was met by a "campaign of abuse and retaliation" launched by Hokies coach Charles "Chugger" Adair. Hening had been a midfielder/defender for the team...

Soccer player objectively played fewer minutes after refusing to kneel for coach’s woke agenda A Virginia Tech female soccer player who alleged that she lost playing time after refusing to go along with the woke agenda of her coach can continue her First Amendment lawsuit, a judge ruled recently. Former soccer player Kierstien Hening’s suit against coach Charles “Chugger” Aidair can proceed, federal Judge Thomas Cullen announced on December 2. Aidair moved to dismiss the lawsuit, but Cullen ruled Hening’s suit could continue. The issue arose during the fall 2020 season, after the Black Lives Matter riots over the summer...

President Trump’s Saturday night Save America rally drummed up powerful feelings of patriotism during a special moment in Robstown, Texas. As the president delivered fiery remarks to a massive crowd of MAGA supporters, a spontaneous recitation of the “Star-Spangled Banner” broke out among the audience.Trump stepped away from the microphone and gestured to the audience, and the entire crowd picked up the tune.During President Donald Trump's speech, the crowd broke out in singing of the national anthem during the Save America Rally in Robstown, TX. Join us on Rumble: https://t.co/XJnh6tcghu pic.twitter.com/SJ3rMRuzp9— RSBN 🇺🇸 (@RSBNetwork) October 23, 2022The pause in the...

Queen Elizabeth II, who died Thursday after a historic reign as monarch of the United Kingdom, was a steadfast ally of the United States, notably breaking tradition by singing the U.S. national anthem just days after 9/11. The queen joined a crowd of thousands in singing “The Star-Spangled Banner” during a memorial service at St. Paul’s Cathedral in London for the victims on Sept. 14, 2001. Richard Kay, a columnist for the Daily Mail, wrote at the time about how unusual this was for a monarch, saying, “The Queen does not ‘sing’ national anthems. Her mouth never opens when they...