All-Star right-hander Corbin Burnes of the Arizona Diamondbacks is set to undergo Tommy John elbow surgery, ending his season early in the first year of a $210 million, six-year ...

A Lancaster man who crashed into a telephone pole in Rosamond died. Dontay Tyrone Johnson, 48, died at 9:52 p.m. Sunday at the scene of the crash on Sierra Highway, south of Patterson Road, the Kern ...

The Pop-Out is a concert series throughout the month of June, bringing local and regional Black musical acts to the River ...

The park will celebrate musicians with ties to Jacksonville, including Ray Charles, Tim McGraw, Lynyrd Skynyrd, James Weldon Johnson, and John Rosamond Johnson. “They’ve sharpened their skills ...

Johnson's brother, John Rosamond Johnson, later set the poem to music. "It's a patriotic song to celebrate the works of (Lincoln), before the song was called or adopted as an anthem," Jones said.

The cast includes Isaac Siemer as Nate, Halle St. John as Mom and Fang, Mia Renard as Rosamond, Blessing Gee ... North Royalton Middle School) • Eric Johnson (honored by North Royalton High ...

They mentioned [James Weldon and John Rosamond Johnson] a lot. But it took a whole big community of African-American people to build up the LaVilla community. To see the courage and the bravery ...

The Black National Anthem — “Lift Every Voice and Sing” — is a hymn written as a poem by then-NAACP leader James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938) in 1900. His brother John Rosamond Johnson (1873 ...

James Weldon Johnson wrote in his 1934 autobiography that “the schoolchildren of Jacksonville kept singing the song,” after he and his brother John Rosamond Johnson moved on to other ventures. This ...

The song was written by James Weldon Johnson in 1899 and his brother, John Rosamond Johnson, composed the music for it in 1900. It was first performed by a children's choir in February of that ...