It's been a banner year for Black Sherif, riding the high of his debut album, The Villain I Never Was, which came out last year. That record and its single "Kwaku The Traveler" appeared on The ...

And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave. Leepson: In the first line, Key uses “freemen,” and three lines later, he uses “us.” ...

Jill Scott performed a rewritten "Star-Spangled Banner" this week. Its closing line: "This is not the land of the free, but the home of the slave." ...

The actual flag Key saw — the Star-Spangled Banner — is now housed in a climate-controlled, light-protected chamber at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C.