The NFL will play Lift Every Voice and Sing" before each game during Week 1, a person familiar with the discussions told The Associated Press. There's always been the controversy about race being ...

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.

"Lift Every Voice and Sing" has a short Super Bowl history, but the song itself has been around since 1900, when it was first performed by a choir of 500 schoolchildren in Jacksonville, Florida.

Lift every voice and sing, ‘Til earth and heaven ring, Ring with the harmonies of Liberty; Let our rejoicing rise . High as ...

For more than a century, “Lift Every Voice and Sing” has held a powerful place in American history. The hymn is known as the Black National Anthem, but it’s more than that. It’s a history ...

Every morning, the kids at the Johnson Learning Center stand up and sing “Lift Every Voice and Sing.” Andrew Young, some 70 years their senior, smiles at the image. It is the same thing he did ...

Also known as ‘the Black national anthem’, the hymn was performed at the Super Bowl 2024 ahead of the game in Las Vegas. ‘Lift Every Voice and Sing’ is a hymn written by two brothers in the early ...

Many people are surprised to learn that "Lift Every Voice and Sing" was first written as a poem. Created by James Weldon Johnson, it was performed for the… ...

Rep. James Clyburn: 'Lift Every Voice and Sing' would be both symbolic and substantive as our national hymn This song by an African American poet and his musical brother, sung by Alicia Keys at ...

As part of NPR's series Present at the Creation, reporter David Person takes a look at the history of Lift Every Voice and Sing, written by James Weldon Johnson and Rosamond Johnson. The song is ...