Were you Seen at the Lift Every Voice: A Juneteenth Music Celebration on June 17, 2025, at the Palace Theatre in Albany? Were you Seen at the Lift Every Voice: A Juneteenth Music Celebration on June ...

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 hymn, then adopted as a song and soon cherished as an anthem. In its 125th ...

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.

Thus, he was pleasantly surprised to watch his alma mater’s Wind ensemble perform “Lift Every Voice and Sing” at his job on June 12, in what he called “a full circle moment” during the Museum of the ...

Lift Every Voice and Sing” is a hymn many African Americans of older generations just know. They’d sung it in church, learned it in school and stood for what is dubbed the unofficial Black national ...

Those who tuned in early on Super Bowl Sunday heard a musical plea for unity and resilience that echoed with a Berkshire connection. Since 2021, pregame ceremonies for football’s biggest night have ...

“Lift Every Voice and Sing," a hymn known by many as the “Black national anthem,” was written in 1899 by James Weldon Johnson, who later bought a home and writing cabin off Alford Road in Great ...

"Lift Every Voice and Sing," celebrating its 125th anniversary on Feb. 12, is one of only about 20 million flashpoints, now, between the "woke" left and the "authoritarian" right.