Lift Every Voice A Juneteenth Music Celebration on June 17, 2025, at the Palace Theatre; Albany's Juneteenth Block Party 2025 ...

“Lift every voice and sing/’Til earth and heaven ring/Ring with the harmonies of Liberty,” it begins. “Let our rejoicing rise/High as the list’ning skies/Let it resound loud as the ...

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 ...

James Weldon Johnson’s poem “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” set to music by his brother John Rosamond, was first presented as a ...

Now, children's ability to use the bathroom is left to the discretion of teachers, who sometimes deny students the ability to go when they have to, or take water breaks.

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

“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 ...