Essence Magazine:
By Malaika Jabali ·Updated February 21, 2023
Jully Black left quite the impression at Sunday’s NBA All Star Game in Salt Lake City, Utah. Beyond singing a stirring, soulful rendition of “O Canada,” the country’s national anthem, Black made sure to subtly shout out the indigenous Canadians who lost their land to European colonizers.
The anthem starts with the line: “O Canada! Our home and native land!”
But Black changed it to
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