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End your Fourth of July weekend with this fun and festive event. On July 6 at 4 p.m., the Community United Methodist Church (CUMC) will host an old-fashioned community hymn sing in its sanctuary in ...
At age 5, Aquil Sudah first heard the “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” or as he prefers to call it, the Black National Anthem. The hymn, written by James Weldon Johnson and composed by J. Rosamond Johnson ...
The Rev. Dr. Brown explained in a 2019 Church News video that “Come, Come Ye Saints” and the iconic Black spiritual “Lift Every Voice and Sing” are two of his favorites because they tell the stories ...
KWETHLUK, Alaska — It was in the dusty streets and modest homes of this remote Alaska Native village that Olga Michael ...
James Weldon Johnson’s poem “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” set to music by his brother John Rosamond, was first presented as a ...
It is featured in over 40 different Christian hymnals and sung in churches all across America, not just during Black History ...
The choir is based in the village’s medieval church, and started in response to restrictions put in place during the coronavirus pandemic, but it has continued to thrive, and enthralled Lady Dannatt ...
(WIB) – On Pentecost Sunday, June 8, the Community Concert Choir of Baltimore will bring more than 100 voices — and the spirit of Black church worship — to Carnegie Hall in New York City for the first ...
NEWBURYPORT — St. Paul’s Episcopal Church is hosting an information session on June 25, at 4 p.m. for its new Chorister Choir program which starts this fall.
ROCHESTER, N.Y. – The Finger Lakes Opera began its 2025 summer festival with its annual Juneteenth concert. The event took place on Thursday night at Mount Olivet Baptist Church.There were ...
A concert performed by a choir of 30 men, women and young people sang a variety of spiritual, uplifting songs for the Mayor of Kettering, Ben Jamieson at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day ...
Holy church as his creation, And her teachings are his own. Adoration aye be given, With and through the angelic host, To the God of earth and heaven, Father, son and Holy Ghost. SONG: HOLY, HOLY, ...