Sacred Harp singers are not historical reenactors, he said. They use their hymnals week after week. Some treat them like ...

Sacred Harp singers of all ages keep a unique, 180-year-old a cappella hymn tradition alive, finding spiritual connection, ...

Keith and Kristyn Getty hope their songs end up in dusty old hymn books. The Gettys, originally from Belfast, Ireland, hope to revive the art of hymn writing at a time when the most popular new ...

HYMN books are expensive. Even with discounts and donations, a new set of hymn books for a parish church can run into thousands of pounds. So, when the dilapidated books stacked at the back of church ...

The James Weldon Johnson Foundation’s "National Hymn Choir" sang "Lift Every Voice and Sing." NFL fans waiting for the draft to begin took it all in before NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell ...

There is nothing more difficult to put into words than the sublime. The thing to be described might be a piece of music, a scenic vista or a jolt of transcendent love. The challenge of defining ...

there are huge riches to be discovered in the Anglican hymn books that we were never allowed to use as children, and I personally use hymnbooks as a source of prayers, because the words are beautiful.

“The black experience is sort of wrapped up in that hymn.” In a review of another book on the hymn, Lift Every Voice and Sing: A Celebration of the Negro National Anthem, Robert Fleming writes about ...

In 1900, NAACP leader James Weldon Johnson penned the poem that would become the hymn “Lift Every Voice and Sing.” Gaining ground as a rallying cry during the civil rights movement of the ...

“I knew they were not in the current hymn book,” she told The Guardian. “I checked the older editions and spoke to experts on Welsh hymns and indeed they were not in any of the older hymn books either ...

As explained in Allen Dwight Callahan’s “The Talking Book,” while there were some literate ... The Black National Anthem refers to Lift Every Voice and Sing, originally a poem and hymn composed by ...

The Grammy winner, 39, sang the hymn “Lift Every Voice and Sing” ahead of Super Bowl LVII at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas. Before the Chiefs and the 49ers took the field, Day belted out the ...