In January 2021, under continued Covid restrictions, the chorus remotely recorded Mother to Son, with music by composer Undine Smith Moore and poetry by Langston Hughes. The Jamal Jackson Dance Company choreographed a dance, and made a videotape, which you can see by clicking on the photo below.

YOU CAN SEE THE VIDEO BY CLICKING HERE.

Undine Smith Moore (1904–1989) was regarded as the "Dean of Black Women Composers." In 1924 she received the first scholarship from the Juilliard Graduate School to study music at Fisk University. Although she composed works for piano and other instrumental groups, Moore is best known for her choral works. Scenes from the Life of a Martyr, based on the works of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. She composed more than one hundred pieces between 1925 and 1987, but only twenty-six were published during her lifetime.

Mother to Son (L. Hughes)
Well, son, I’ll tell you:
Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.
It’s had tacks in it,
And splinters,
And boards torn up,
And places with no carpet on the floor—
Bare.
But all the time
I’se been a-climbin’ on,
And reachin’ landin’s,
And turnin’ corners,
And sometimes goin’ in the dark
Where there ain’t been no light.
So, boy, don’t you turn back.
Don’t you set down on the steps.
’Cause you finds it’s kinder hard.
Don’t you fall now—
For I’se still goin’, honey,
I’se still climbin’,
And life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.