“The Star-Spangled Banner” wasn’t actually adopted as ... And where is that band who so vauntingly swore, The third verse is probably the most historically problematic verse.

By now you’ve probably heard the claim that America’s national anthem, “The Star-Spangled Banner,” is ... is the anthem’s seldom-sung third verse, which gloats at the defeat of the ...

Nov. 7): The NAACP wants the Star Spangled Banner removed as our National Anthem because the author was a slave owner and the third stanza of the poem that is the basis for the Anthem is “racist”.