Kate Smith’s ‘God Bless America’ Out At Yankee Stadium Over Racist Song

The song was for a Broadway show mocking racism. That’s why Robeson also sang it. Via Fox News: The New York Yankees have decided to no longer run Kate Smith’s version of “God Bless America” during their seventh-inning stretch because of Smith’s affiliation with songs that carried racist lyrics. Most famously, Smith sang a 1931 […]

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