Detroit NAACP 70th Fight for Freedom Fund Dinner Calls for Urgency, Action, and Power in the Hands of the People ...

Fellows and guests gathered at the 2024 Du Bois Forum Plaque commemorating the birthsite of W.E.B. Du Bois The Du Bois Forum is plea ...

James Weldon Johnson’s poem “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” set to music by his brother John Rosamond, was first presented as a hymn, then adopted as a song and soon cherished as an anthem. In its 125th ...

From June 18 to 21, the Ritz Chamber Players performed a classical concert of all Black composers and musicians for the ...

“Lift every voice and sing, Till earth and heaven ring, Ring with the harmonies of Liberty,” goes the lyric written in 1900 by James Weldon Johnson and set to music by his brother J. Rosamond ...

The county adopted Juneteenth as its own holiday in 2021, the same year as its designation as a national holiday.

It is featured in over 40 different Christian hymnals and sung in churches all across America, not just during Black History Month or Juneteenth,’ said musician Theodore Thorpe III.

1871 – James Weldon Johnson, American author, journalist, and activist (died 1938) 1882 – Igor Stravinsky, Russian pianist, composer, and conductor (died 1971) 1898 – M. C. Escher, Dutch illustrator ...

The novel calls to mind James Weldon Johnson’s 1912 novel, “Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man,” and Ralph Ellison’s “Invisible Man,” as well as books by Percival Everett, Paul Beatty ...

It's the time of year in Jacksonville for Juneteenth events, dance recitals and season finales. Here are 100-plus fun things to do.