Outside Reading #28

On HBO and NPR, the "We are One" concert was at the Lincoln Memorial and celebrated the inauguration of Barack Obama. Many famous singers and actors went up on the stage to sing and talk in front of 10s of thousands of people. The radio said, "As far as the eye could see".  On NPR, I heard Denzel Washington, Tom Hanks, Joe Biden, Tiger Woods, and Jack Black speak about presidential history and the American people.  Barack Obama also came up and told a speech. Many famous musical artists appeared and sang famous american classics; Mary J Blige sang "Lean on Me", The song "American Pie" came on, Stevie Wonder sang some of his songs, U2 sang "In the name of love", and the closing song was "This land is your land". It was a very nice production, and I wish I would have been there. This concert had many connections to history. Both Obama and Lincoln are from Illinois. Obama will be the first black president/ Lincoln freed African-American's from slavery. The Concert was held at the Lincoln Memorial, where Martin Luther King Jr. made his "I have a dream" speech,  and the concert was held the day before Martin Luther King day.