Nelson Mandela’s day is done, we confess it in tearful voices, yet we lift our own to say thank you. Thank you our Gideon, thank you our David, our great courageous man. We will not forget you ...

Editor’s note: Our ... “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” its lyrics and how it became the Black national anthem has been updated to reflect events at the 2023 Super Bowl. So many of us remember ...

Many people are surprised to learn that "Lift Every Voice and Sing" was first written as a poem. Created by James Weldon Johnson, it was performed for the first time by 500 school children in ...

There was a time when African Americans were not citizens of the U.S. We became citizens ... Anthem — “Lift Every Voice and Sing” — is a hymn written as a poem by then-NAACP leader James ...