"That's the beauty of the poem." "Lift every voice and sing" begins the song. But when Johnson originally wrote the poem, he intended to celebrate the birthday of President Abraham Lincoln.

Pear Orchard Cemetery in Beaumont receives Historic Texas Cemetery status, honoring Black community history and local ...

Gwendolyn Brooks grew up in a South Side house full of books and was a poet from an early age, eventually becoming the first ...

The audience rose and joined the OSU African American Voices Gospel Choir to sing a rendition of Lift Every Voice and Sing ... their fraternity and sorority brothers and sisters cheered them ...

Interviewer Karen Celestan hit several of the many stellar accomplishments in Ledisi’s career, including her recent showstopping performance of “Lift Every Voice and Sing” at the Super ... recorded by ...

“It comes right out of his own life,” Broderick Johnson, the Cabinet secretary ... but then came the black national anthem, “Lift Every Voice and Sing.” As the lyrics rang out over the ...

Rosamund Johnson composed “Lift Every Voice and Sing”—the song we now know as the Black National Anthem. One hundred and twenty-five years ago, 500 Black schoolchildren in Florida first sang ...

Some Jacksonville City Council leaders are calling on Visit Jacksonville, the city’s official tour guide agency, to be more ...

The Lift Bridge is now staffed from 8 a.m. to midnight each day, and the bridge will lift every half hour if boat traffic is present. The lift schedule is expected to stay in effect through late ...

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