I need some Black History song ideas

 I was asked to do a song for a Black History program and I'm trying to decide on a song.  

I'm looking for something that has a positive message about love or hope.  I'm flexible about the style; it can be anything from gospel to funk to rock as long as it's a good tune.

Check out some Sweet Honey in the Rock..Google. They do mostly original stuff, their work may give you some ideas or old Black Spirituals sung to a new beat, rythum...

Thank you.

Hey Sue,

There is a great song we sing at church - it is called "Keep Hope Alive"; starts off with the "Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen...then goes on to "Oh Freedom" ...then Keep Hope Alive...

Don't know who originally sang this - but it's a GREAT Black History Month sing.

Donna

Thanks, Donna.

Lift every voice and sing
 

They will be opening the program with that one.

Yes we can by Will.I.AM

It was a creed written into the founding documents that declared the destiny of a nation.
Yes we can.
It was whispered by slaves and abolitionists as they blazed a trail toward freedom.
Yes we can.
It was sung by immigrants as they struck out from distant shores and pioneers who pushed westward against an unforgiving wilderness.
Yes we can.
It was the call of workers who organized; women *****ached for the ballots; a President who chose the moon as our new frontier; and a King who took us to the mountaintop and pointed the way to the Promised Land.
Yes we can to justice and equality.
Yes we can to opportunity and prosperity.
Yes we can heal this nation.
Yes we can repair this world.
Yes we can.
We know the battle ahead will be long, but always remember that no matter what obstacles stand in our way, nothing can stand in the way of the power of millions of voices calling for change. (We want change.)
We have been told we cannot do this by a chorus of cynics…they will only grow louder and more dissonant ……….. We’ve been asked to pause for a reality check. We’ve been warned against offering the people of this nation false hope.
But in the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope.
Now the hopes of the little girl who goes to a crumbling school in Dillon are the same as the dreams of the boy who learns on the streets of LA; we will remember that there is something happening in America; that we are not as divided as our politics suggests; that we are one people; we are one nation; and together, we will begin the next great chapter in the American story with three words that will ring from coast to coast; from sea to shining sea: Yes We Can.

Love it!