a year before James became the organization’s first Black executive secretary. “The Negro National Anthem” became the “Black National Anthem,” and the rest is Black history. If you enjoy ...

A Democratic congressman said all Americans should stand for “The Negro National Anthem” and chided the ... He was referring to a line in the third verse — “No refuge could save the ...

"The Negro National Anthem ... "The Star-Spangled Banner." The NAACP first began to promote "Lift Every Voice and Sing" as the country's "Black national anthem" in 1917. Written as a plea for ...

On February 12, 1900, the song was first ... verse read by LeVar Burton, and the song has been the chosen anthem of Juneteenth celebrations since. In 2021, Juneteenth was designated a national ...

Steele then pointed out the fact that Watts didn’t even know what it was at first, proving that ... The NAACP recognized it as the “Negro National Anthem” in 1917, and that term has since ...

This coming Sunday, at the most widely viewed sporting event in America, the Super Bowl, the National Football League will feature the singing of "Lift Every Voice and Sing," the song first known ...

"America has only ONE National Anthem, and that Anthem is color ... and "God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse" (1927) and served as Teddy Roosevelt's consul in Venezuela and Nicaragua.