The Black National Anthem – “Lift Every Voice and Sing” – is a hymn written as a poem by then NAACP leader James Weldon ...

From its beginnings as a birthday tribute to Abraham Lincoln sung in 1900 by 500 black schoolchildren in segregated Florida, “Lift Every Voice and Sing ... by James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938 ...

James Wheldon Johnson, author of the iconic song "Lift Every Voice and Sing." Written over 120 years ago, and still relevant today. Rodney and Erika McLeod, co-founders of the "Change Our Future ...