“With everything that’s happening, if I stand there and sing it, I’m being complicit to a system that has oppressed people of color,” Liana Morales recalled telling school staff about “The Star-Spangled Banner”
Every year since its first senior class graduated in 2010, the Urban Assembly School for the Performing Arts has opened its commencement ceremony with a rendition of “The Star-Spangled Banner,” sung by a talented student handpicked by the school’s music staff.
This year the new coronavirus has forced the New York City school to hold a virtual commencement on June 26, but the singing tradition continues. Liana Morales, a 16-year-old junior, was chosen in March to pre-record her own rendition for the ceremony.
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