“I think Juneteenth is a perfect time to celebrate Blackness, celebrate freedom, and celebrate all the things that make us feel empowered in this world today,” Madison Calley says. For her contribution to Apple Music’s Freedom Songs, a collection of covers and originals inspired by the 2021 Juneteenth celebration, the harpist chose to play a Brandee Younger arrangement of “Lift Every Voice and Sing”—also known as the Black National Anthem—a song she says embodies her own professional journey. “‘Lift Every Voice and Sing’ was written during a time when Jim Crow was replacing slavery and African Americans were searching for identity,” Calley says. “So this song I resonate with greatly, because it took me a long time as a musician to find my own identity and my own place in the world and in this industry.”