Singing in the Dark

On this day in 1873, George MacDonald went to hear a group of freed slaves called the “Jubilee Singers” in New York. He wept with joy throughout the concert. After the show, while he and his wife were chatting with one of the performers, the lights went out and the singer called, “All the same color now!”
Around the Year with C.S. Lewis and His Friends

Even in the dark, we can sing and we can dream.

"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
"I have a dream today.
"I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of interposition and nullification; one day right there in Alabama, little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.
"I have a dream today.
"'I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight, and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together.' (Isaiah 40:4-5)
"And when this happens, when we allow freedom to ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, 'Free at last! free at last! thank God Almighty, we are free at last!'"
Martin Luther King, Aug. 28, 1963