Francis Scott Key

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• SOURCE: Classic FM
  7/1/2020
  

  Calls for ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’ to be Replaced With a New US National Anthem

  Musicians and historians suggest the anthem, which was written by a 19th-century slave owner, has run its course as America’s national song.

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• SOURCE: Creators Syndicate
  5/27/2020
  

  Baltimore Was a Key Place For Trump, If He Only Knew

  by Jamie Stiehm

  It's odd that Trump could give a speech about Francis Scott Key with nearly all the facts wrong; the slaveowner was a key adviser to Andrew Jackson, the model for Trump's brand of white reactionary populism.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  11-22-17
  

  Colin Kaepernick and the Legacy of the Negro National Anthem

  by Brent Staples

  The truth is that the maxims about freedom implied in the song describe a condition the country has yet to achieve. People who confront that reality by kneeling prayerfully on the football field are often more determinedly patriotic than those who reflexively stand.

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• SOURCE: The Root
  7-4-16
  

  Story of the Week: The Hidden Racist History of the National Anthem

  by Jason Johnson

  In the third, forgotten stanza, Francis Scott Key refers darkly to the members of the Colonial Marines, a battalion of runaway slaves who joined with the British Royal Army in exchange for their freedom. 

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• What You Didn't Know About Francis Scott Key

  by Steve Vogel

  The man who wrote the Star Spangled Banner opposed the war his song celebrates.